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Tribes Say the U.S. Misappropriated Funds to Pay for Native American Boarding Schools
- On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, New York Governor Kathy Hochul is scheduled to travel to Seneca Nation land to offer a formal apology for the State's involvement in running the Thomas Indian School from 1875 to 1957.
- The visit comes after many decades during which Indigenous children were removed from their families and placed in government-run boarding schools throughout numerous states from the early 19th century until the late 1960s, as part of a widespread policy of forced assimilation.
- The Thomas Indian School, located in Western New York’s Cattaraugus Territory, enforced cultural erasure through corporal punishment and suppressed Native languages, religions, and practices while causing widespread trauma and death.
- A report released by the U.S. Interior Department in 2022 revealed widespread physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, as well as hundreds of confirmed child fatalities, at Native American boarding schools. Seneca President J. Conrad Seneca emphasized that these horrific experiences endured by Native children have long been concealed from public awareness.
- Hochul’s apology aims to mark a new chapter in relations with the Seneca people and Indigenous communities, though some members express skepticism about state intentions amid ongoing disputes over tribal gaming revenues.
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NY Governor Apologizes for Native Boarding School History
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul formally apologized Tuesday for the atrocities she says were committed at an upstate boarding school where Native American youths were forcibly separated from their families and forced to assimilate into American society. The post New York Governor Apologizes for Native American Boarding School History appeared first on Mississippi Free Press.
Native Nations sue US government alleging misuse of trust funds for boarding schools
The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita Tribe) and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California (Washoe Tribe) filed a class action trust accounting lawsuit on Thursday, alleging that the US government misused Native Nations’ “own funds” to pay for the country’s boarding school program during a period that former President Joe Biden named “one of the most horrific chapters in American history.” The plaintiffs in this lawsuit are the Wichita and …
Tribes say the U.S. misappropriated funds to pay for Native American boarding schools
Two tribal nations filed a lawsuit Thursday saying that the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where generations of Native children were systematically abused. In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the Wichita Tribe and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California said that by the U.S. government’s own admission, the schools were funded using money ra…
Kathy Hochul apologizes for New York’s role in Native American boarding schools
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) issued the first apology from a sitting governor to the Seneca Nation for a boarding school’s treatment of Native Americans. Hochul was in Irving, New York, near the site of the Thomas Indian School, over two…
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