October 13, 2021

Stolen souls and broken promises: Boarding schools are a continuing crisis of colonialism

Author: Katherine E. Connelly

Dean S. Seneca
and Katherine E. Connelly
Seneca Scientific Solutions+
The relationship between the United States and Indigenous populations has been built on broken promises for the theft of Native land, culture, and identity. Treaty-making practices and governmental policies have forced this inequitable relationship, which has resulted in sanctioned ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide.
The operation of Indian boarding schools remains one of the core intergenerational atrocities that continue...