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BumRushDaShow

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Sun Jan 19, 2025, 09:07 AM Sunday

Outgoing Interior Secretary Deb Haaland hands off closer ties with Indian Country [View all]

Source: NPR

January 19, 2025 1:03 AM ET


At a farewell speech in Washington D.C. this week, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reflected on President Biden's formal apology last October for the U.S. government's historic assimilation policies and its Indian boarding school system. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, children were separated from families, with no full accounting of those who went missing or died.

"I believe we are in an era of healing," she told the crowd. "That healing has been among the most important things I have done as secretary." Haaland went on to reflect on traveling with Biden to one of the most notorious boarding schools in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, now a national monument. "As I stood next to the president, I felt the power of our ancestors who persevered through unthinkable odds so that we could all be there that day," she said.

Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna of New Mexico, says her grandparents and her mother were sent away, a trauma she brought up in an interview with NPR just before the November election. Haaland says her twelve-stop "road to healing" tour across Indian Country – which included listening sessions and reports meant to better account for the missing – was a turning point.

"It's an important piece of our history that every single American should know about. It's a painful part of our history," she told NPR.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/19/g-s1-43171/outgoing-interior-secretary-deb-haaland-native-americans

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