The U.S. Department of the Interior released a report on Indigenous federal boarding schools. TIME spoke with Brenda Child, historian and author of 'Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940' to learn more 📝: Olivia B. Waxman (OBWax)
. “It is my priority to not only give voice to the survivors and descendants of federal Indian boarding school policies, but also to address the lasting legacies of these policies so Indigenous peoples can continue to grow and heal.”
It also sounds like the schools were training people for certain kinds of low-paying jobs that serve white Americans.. Indian people were Native, but lower-class [who white people thought] should learn some good manual trades that benefited the white majority. The boarding schools were not really about benefiting Indians. They were a form of segregated education in the history of the United States. And we know who benefits from segregation.
I did find it interesting that the report includes Native Hawaiians. Many of us who have written about the history ofhaven’t really included them in this history. There are a lot of similarities and parallels because maybe some of the same missionaries or officials started out in Indian schools and then went to Hawaii. These ideas about assimilating, changing Indigenous people were global. So I like that [the report] included Hawaii.
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