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A bipartisan group of 27 US Senators has reintroduced legislation to investigate the federal government’s centuries-long Indian boarding school policies, which led to the attempted termination and assimilation of Native Americans from 1819 through the 1960s.
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- By Jenna Kunze
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AUGUSTA, Maine — A sweeping overhaul of the state-tribal relationship is likely to be pushed into 2024 due to a need to lock down Republican support and little time to do so.
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A public university in California has begun the process of returning an unconfirmed number — thought to be around 213—of Native American human remains and burial objects to their respective tribal nations.
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- By Jenna Kunze
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Last Friday, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community) joined Native News Online publisher Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi) and senior reporter Jenna Kunze for an episode of Native Bidaske.
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- By Jenna Kunze
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It’s been a year since the Department of Interior released the first volume of its federal investigation into Indian boarding schools. Native News Online Senior Reporter Jenna Kunze, who’s written more than half of the 175-plus stories we’ve published on Indian boarding schools, takes a look at what’s happened since the groundbreaking report was published, and what’s on the horizon.
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- By Jenna Kunze
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Opinion. Today marks one year since the release of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Today, a group of archivists published a list identifying 87 Catholic-run Indian boarding schools that operated in 22 states through the late 1970s. The list is part of an effort to point tribal communities to the diocese, parishes, or religious orders where specific school records might be housed.
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- By Jenna Kunze
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A state-recognized Anishinaabek tribe in West Michigan says it has been “poring over historic documentation” in the last several months to make a stronger case to the federal government for recognition.
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- By Laina G. Stebbins, Michigan Advance
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TULAILIP, Wash.—The Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) plans to launch a website this summer that will allow Native Americans to search for information on relatives who attended Indian boarding schools.
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- By Jenna Kunze