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‘I see our last names’: Oneida families bury children taken to boarding school
“I feel like traveling home,” the Oneida singers sang, their voices filling the Church of the Holy Apostles in Hobart, Wisconsin. “My heavenly home is right ahead, I feel like traveling home.” After a memorial service on June 27, the families of Paul Wheelock and Frank Green buried the remains of the two Oneida children […]
Interior Department report details the brutality of federal Indian boarding schools
The atrocities committed at boarding schools designed and run by the federal government to eradicate Indigenous people were outlined by the U.S. Interior Department for the first time in a report published last week. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland held back tears as she described the scope of the investigation that identifies 408 federal Indian boarding schools […]
Congress explores creation of truth commission for U.S. Indian Boarding Schools
WASHINGTON — Survivors of a U.S. policy that forced indigenous children to attend boarding schools where they were abused, or went missing, detailed to members of a U.S. House Natural Resources panel last week the need for Congress to establish a truth commission dedicated to unveiling the traumas indigenous children experienced at the schools. Rep. […]
Evers signs executive order on Indigenous Peoples Day, apologizes for Wisconsin’s role in Indian boarding schools
On Monday, Indigenous People’s Day, Gov. Tony Evers signed an executive order formally apologizing for Wisconsin’s historic role in removing Native American children from their homes and placing them in boarding schools funded by the federal government and operated by government and religious organizations. The order also includes a formal declaration of support for the […]
Democrats seek support services for survivors of Native American boarding schools
WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers are pushing federal agencies to provide support for survivors of and communities affected by American Indian boarding school policies, the decades-long practice of forcibly sending Native American children to faraway boarding schools that rejected their tribal cultures. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kansas) sent a request this month […]
A federal investigation seeks to uncover the painful history of Native American boarding schools
WASHINGTON —The Native American children travelled on trains, thousands of miles from their homes, to Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Many had been forcibly taken from their parents and communities. Once there, they had to hand over their belongings, put on uniforms, cut off their braids, adopt new […]
How a Wisconsin tribe helped launch a Trump-approved ‘Make America Great Again’ charter school
The Lake Country Classical Academy, an independent charter school authorized by the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe College in northern Wisconsin, opened in September in the Milwaukee suburb of Oconomowoc, about a five-hour drive south on Interstate 94 from Hayward, where the college is located — about as far away from Ojibwe land and tribal members […]
Decision Day for high school seniors comes with added stress
Rowan Cody has a decision to make. It’s a decision high school seniors have made before her and others are making alongside her — where to attend college. But this year, Cody and the rest of the class of 2020 are making this decision while the economy is in shambles, the coronavirus pandemic continues to […]
Museum of Wisconsin Art exhibitions showcase Native American identity, history, veterans
Over the past few weeks, the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in West Bend has opened two new exhibitions by indigenous artists to the public. On July 23, the museum opened Ho-Chunk photographer Tom Jones’s first major retrospective, which features 120 photos from sixteen bodies of work over 25 years. Curator Graeme Reid says MOWA […]
The ACA helped us afford our daughter’s brain surgery. We need to build on its legacy.
It was a humid night in India when my 11-year-old daughter Merlin lost the ability to use her right arm. She was happily playing with friends at a class party when her fingertips started to grow numb. Within minutes, her entire arm was tingling and limp. We returned to our home concerned, but within the […]