Report: 12 Indian Boarding Schools were located in North Dakota

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Division of the Inside launched its first stories Wednesday on investigations into the historical past of Indian Boarding Colleges in the US, what occurred at these colleges, and what the division plans to do to right the wrongs in opposition to Native People.

The above map exhibits the places of the place these boarding colleges had been in what’s now North Dakota.

They span all 5 of the primary Native American Tribes in North Dakota — from Belcourt, to Spirit Lake, to what’s now the Three Affiliated Tribes, to Fort Yates, and to Wahpeton.

A few of these communities had a number of colleges.

There have been 12 boarding colleges in North Dakota, based on the report.

The Inside’s aim was to establish these colleges throughout the nation, together with the names of scholars who attended them, and find marked and unmarked graves of those that attended.

The division stated in its report it plans to seek the advice of with tribes, and lays out a collection of steps shifting ahead, which included figuring out any surviving attendees.

Mark Fox, the chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes, launched the next assertion to Your Information Chief:

“The Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation helps the Secretary of the Inside’s continued efforts to check Indian boarding colleges. The historic and tragic injustices suffered by native individuals due to boarding colleges is well-known in Indian Nation however not by the American public. This is a chance to teach all individuals concerning the persistent, historic and intergenerational trauma that many are nonetheless dealing with and making an attempt to heal from to this present day. The MHA Nation has a deep respect and compassion for our members who had been compelled to attend boarding colleges, who had been whipped merely for talking in their very own language, and who suffered numerous different indignities and abuse. We’re particularly sympathetic to the households of those that didn’t make it residence. We all know what they went by way of whereas they had been away from their households, and we really feel nice compassion for them. We’re working arduous to deal with the intergenerational trauma inherited from those that suffered by way of the boarding faculty expertise. Our aim is to revive the household relationships and cultural values affected by the boarding faculty period, to depend on our religious teachings, and to encourage our members to stay wholesome and rewarding lives. We encourage Secretary Haaland to finish the examine and take no matter corrective motion is suitable.”

Your Information Chief additionally reached out to management with the state’s 4 different foremost tribes.

Turtle Mountain Chairman Jamie Azure says he hadn’t had an opportunity but to see the report, and we’re ready on responses from management with Standing Rock, Spirit Lake, and the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate.

We’ve additionally reached out to North Dakota’s U.S. Senators for response and can replace this story as we be taught extra.

Associated content material:

Federal Indian Boarding College Initiative Investigative Report

Checklist of Federal Indian Boarding Colleges

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