U.S. Department of the Interior

The Honorable Deb Haaland Secretary of the Interior

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

The Department’s investigation has already identified marked or unmarked burial sites at approximately 53 different schools across the Federal Indian boarding school system.

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.

The Department concludes that at least 59 religious institutions and organizations received U.S. Government support to operate or support schools in the Federal Indian boarding school system.

As of now, the official list of federal Indian boarding schools and maps include 417 institutions across 37 states or then-territories.

Volume II also finds that there have been at least 973 deaths of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiians while attending federal operated or supported schools

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