Hundreds of Alaskan and Hawaiian Native children died in federally run residential schools between 1819 and 1969, where they suffered abuse, said a report from the U.S. Indian Bureau released Wednesday.
Graves, identified or unnamed, were discovered near 53 residential schools for Aboriginals where these children separated from their families were placed for the purpose of assimilation, according to this report in federal Indian residential school system.
About 19 of these establishments accounts for more than 500 deaths of Native American, Alaskan and Hawaiian childrensays the report, which authorities are already pointing out expect to see an increase in the number of identified graves as the investigation progresses.
Their location was not disclosed to avoid Grave theft, vandalism and other disturbance in the grave sites of Indiasays the authors.
This report is the first part of a major investigation launched by the Ministry of the Interior, an extensive department that manages native reservations as well as natural resources on federal lands, after the discovery, since 2021 , of more than a thousand unmarked burial of Aboriginal Children at the sites of a former residential school operated by the Catholic Church in Canada.
Between 1819 and 1969, the federal Indian residential school system in the United States there are a total of 408 schools located in 37 U.S. states and territories, including 21 schools in Alaska and seven in Hawaii, refers to this report requested by the Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, who is himself a Aboriginal.
We are use systematic militarized methods of identity change in an attempt to assimilate, through educationthe children of these Amerindian communities, especially by giving them an English name or by cutting their hair.
Schools prevent or restrict children from speaking their language and engaging in technical education or manual labor with job prospects that are often unrelated to America’s industrial economy, which is more disruptive to tribal economiesaccording to the report.
In these establishments, the rule was often enforced through corporal punishment such as solitary confinement or starvation, flogging, beatings and chains, the report explained, adding that older children were forced to punish younger ones.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs wishes to continue its investigation to determine the total number of children attended in these schools and the total number of funerals in the country as well as to determine the children buried at these sites. .
Source: Radio-Canada
