Native American tribal elders delivered powerful testimony about hardships they endured at the government-backed schools, including beatings, whippings, sexual assaults, forced haircuts and painful nicknames.
Donald Neconie, 84, a former U.S. Marine and member of the Kiowa Tribe, recounts his experiences as a child at an Indian boarding school Saturday, July 9, 2022, in Anadarko, Okla., during a meeting to hear about the painful experiences of Native Americans who were sent to government-backed boarding schools designed to strip them of their cultural identities.
“Federal Indian boarding school policies have touched every Indigenous person I know," Haaland said at the start of the event, which attracted Native Americans from throughout the region. “Some are survivors. Some are descendants. But we all carry the trauma in our hearts. Although most closed their doors long ago and none still exist to strip students of their identities, some still function as schools, albeit with drastically different missions that celebrate the cultural backgrounds of their Native students. Among them is Riverside, which is one of oldest.
But Riverside also has a dark history of mistreating the thousands of Native American students who were forced from their homes to attend it. Until recently, the federal government hadn’t been open to examining its role in the troubled history of Native American boarding schools. But this has changed because people who know about the trauma that was inflicted hold prominent positions in government.
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