Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative

you issued a memorandum directing Department of the Interior (Department) agencies to coordinate an investigation into the Federal Indian boarding school system

Of the 408 Federal Indian boarding schools

federal policies were set out to break us, obtain our territories, and destroy our cultures and our lifeways

The assimilation of Indian children through the Federal Indian boarding school system was intentional and part of that broader goal of Indian territorial dispossession for the expansion of the United States.

Confirming that at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children died while attending Federal Indian boarding schools;

Confirming that there are at least 74 marked and unmarked burial sites at 65 different school sites;

Updating the official list of Federal Indian boarding schools to include 417 institutions across 37 states or then-territories;

Accordingly, 210 of 417 Federal Indian boarding schools were operated by a religious institution or organization.