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Nearly 1,000 Indigenous children died in US boarding schools, report finds (www.aljazeera.com)

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At least 973 Indigenous children died while attending boarding schools run or supported by the United States government, a federal report has found, prompting calls for an apology for the pain suffered at the abuse-riddled institutions.

The report, released on Tuesday and commissioned by US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, found dozens of marked and unmarked graves at 65 of the more than 400 US boarding schools that were established across the country.

The findings don’t specify how each child died, but the causes of death included sickness, accidents and abuse during a 150-year period that ended in 1969, officials said.

The schools were set up to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children into white society, and survivors have described the intergenerational trauma their families and communities continue to experience as a result of the institutions.

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[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that sounds impossibly low

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

973 that we know of

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

973 that they admit to >.>

[–] glans@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

400 schools; 150 years 1819 to 1969

only 1000 dead children during that whole time?

no, few, or inadequate vaccines
antibiotics only at the very end
no or inadequate plumbing
miasma theory of disease still in favor

it sounds way beneath the expected rate without knowing any other details. doesn't matter who were in the schools or what they were for

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

Canada is in the 10s of thousands from the residential schools already. If they keep looking they'll find more.

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

i bet if they were sent home after getting sick it doesn't count.

same shit prisons still do

[–] magnificentTOAD@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

I want a shady boarding school where we put all the white kids that called me racial slurs into it and make them drink…. SPICE ooOooOoooOOoO👻👻👻

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Genocide under every rock you pick up in this demonic society. Even if no one died, this is literally genocide

The schools were set up to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children into white society

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

That’s only a 6th of all the schools and I guarantee they haven’t found all the ones at the ones they checked. Keep digging.