New partnerships will memorialize stories, impacts of Federal Indian Boarding School System
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News from the Department of the Interior
WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior recently announced new agreements with the U.S. Library of Congress and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History as part of the Department’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. The new agreements will preserve the survivor stories disclosed initiative’s oral history project, and inform the public on histories relating to the federal Indian boarding school system and its impacts on Indigenous children and their communities.
The Initiative was launched in June 2021 by Secretary Haaland as the first-ever comprehensive effort by the federal government to recognize the troubled legacy of past federal Indian boarding school policies with the goal of addressing their intergenerational impact and shedding light on past and present trauma in Indigenous communities.
