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Tribes Sue for Full Accounting of Money Used to Fund Native American Boarding Schools

On Thursday, multiple Native American tribes initiated legal action in federal court in Pennsylvania’s Middle District against the U.S. Government and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, challenging the handling of the boarding school system, including the Carlisle school.
The lawsuit arises from longstanding allegations that the U.S. Used funds from Native Nations' trusts, often derived from treaties, to finance federal Indian Boarding Schools that forcibly assimilated children and breached legal obligations to tribes.
These military-style schools, starting with Carlisle, separated children from families, punished native language use, imposed new names, and caused widespread abuse, death, and cultural destruction across 417 schools in 37 states.
The lawsuit demands a full accounting of the estimated $23.3 billion appropriated for the program, including trust fund usage, land values ceded per at least 171 treaties, economic harms, child labor value, and requests preservation and publication of all related documents.
This legal action follows a 2022 report and President Biden's 2024 apology calling the boarding schools a ‘‘significant mark of shame’’ and seeks to address the absence of prior transparent accounting for millions of dollars tied to this historic harm.

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Tribes sue for full accounting of money used to fund Native American boarding schools

Several Native American tribes have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to order the United States to release documentation of the brutal boarding school system that included one such institution in Carlisle.

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Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and Washoe Tribe Sue Federal Government re: Carlisle

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Tribes sue U.S. over boarding school funding

Two tribes sue the U.S. for using Native trust funds to fund abusive boarding schools, demanding an accounting of $23.3 billion in misused money. The post Tribes sue U.S. over boarding school funding first appeared on The Journal Record.

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