WASHINGTON — It's been nearly half a year since Secretary Deb Haaland released the first report in the Interior Department's investigation into the legacy and lasting trauma from Indian boarding schools.
For more than a century, from 1819 to the late 1960s, the federal government and some religious organizations took Indigenous children from their families, their land and forcibly assimilated them into White European culture.
The report released by the Interior Department found that more than 500 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died over the course of 150 years in the boarding schools. Scholars estimate the numbers could be much higher. Countless others were physically, mentally and emotionally abused as their language and cultural identities were forbidden by school staff, according to the investigation.
She told"Nightline" she vividly remembers being forced to run laps around a building and being beaten by a school matron as punishment. "We didn't go to boarding school, but we still deal with the same traumas that our grandparents and great-grandparents went through," Brave said."I kind of just I'm hoping that people see how resilient we are as Native American people because they pretty much tried to kill us off and they couldn't," she said.
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