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US Government Admits It Used Schools as Tool to Erase Culture, Seize Native American Land: Report

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US Government Admits It Used Schools as Tool to Erase Culture, Seize Native American Land: Report
U.S. School for Indians at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 1891. John C. H. Grabill collection, Library of Congress
Beth Brelje
By Beth Brelje
5/19/2022Updated: 5/19/2022

Erasing culture, pulling children away from their parents, and disregarding the emotional needs of children. These tactics could be pulled from today’s headlines, but they are the tried-and-true education policies the United States has admitted to using for 150 years as a tool to force the assimilation of Native Americans, and specifically to acquire Indian territorial land.

This month, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) released a 106-page report detailing how the U.S. federal government “applied systematic militarized and identity-alteration methodologies in the Federal Indian boarding school system to assimilate American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children through education.”
Beth Brelje
Beth Brelje
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Beth Brelje is a former reporter with The Epoch Times. Ms. Brelje previously worked in radio for 20 years and after moving to print, worked at Pocono Record and Reading Eagle.
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