The federal report on boarding schools | Talk of Alaska

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland brushes a treatment totem rod for Alaska Native boarding schoolhouse survivors pinch a bough of cedar to bless it. The totem is nan first successful nan U.S. dedicated to boarding schoolhouse survivors and their families. (Rhonda McBride/KNBA)

The achy bequest and harm caused to Alaska Native group by nan boarding schoolhouse era successful Alaska and nan remainder of nan federation is only opening to beryllium acknowledged and understood. The U.S. Interior Department released a study successful July 2024 to proceed documenting nan national government’s domiciled successful nan strategy that ripped children distant from their homes. We talk pinch survivors and researchers astir what other is needed to show nan afloat communicative and bring treatment connected this Talk of Alaska.

HOST: Lori Townsend

GUESTS:

• Jim LaBelle – Board personnel and erstwhile president, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, boarding schoolhouse survivor
• Benjamin Jacuk – Director of Indigenous Research, Alaska Native Heritage Center
• Amber Ebarb – Minority Staff Director for Senate Committee connected Indian Affairs for vice president Sen. Lisa Murkowski

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LIVE Broadcast: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 astatine 10:00 a.m. connected APRN stations statewide.