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Boarding School Healing Project
The Boarding School Healing Project is requesting a hearing on boarding school abuses committed against Native peoples in the United States through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The BSHP needs as many organizations as possible to sign on to the request. Please let them know if your organization would be willing to do so. They need organizations rather than individuals, unless the individuals can be identified as key leaders in prominent organizations. If you are willing to sign on, you can email the BSHP at boardingschoolhp@gmail.com.
For more info on this action, please see: http://www.boardingschoolhealingproject.org/takeaction.html
Here is an excerpt of the request for a hearing:
The organizations and individuals listed below write pursuant to Article 64 of the Rules of Procedure of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to request the Commission to schedule a general interest hearing…on the subject of the continuing effects of abuses of Native American children compelled by U.S. law to attend residential schools run or controlled by the state party, where they were subjected to physical, sexual, emotional, cultural and spiritual abuse.
The purpose of the hearing is to inform the Commission concerning the widespread and devastating continuing impacts of these human rights violations which directly resulted from the U.S. government's de jure requirement that all Indigenous children attend such boarding schools, and its failure to exercise due diligence to prevent and protect Native children from abuses by state and religious officials acting as agents of the state.
Thank you so much for your help.
Trigger warning for the videos below…
Here is a video of BSHP member, Andrea Smith, discussing the history of boarding schools:
And here is a video of Lakota woman and boarding school survivor, Joanne Tall, describing her experience in a boarding school:
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