Thank you for your apology for the atrocities and continuing harm done by the US government by the Indian Boarding Schools. I join NDN Collective in asking you to back up your apology with these five actions before you leave office.
1.) Passing the U.S. Truth & Healing Commission Bill to ensure continued funding and support for the relatives who survived boarding schools
2.) Granting immediate Executive Clemency for boarding school survivor Leonard Peltier, freeing him from his 50 year incarceration
3.) Immediately investing in Indigenous language and cultural revitalization programs
4.) Rescinding all medals of honor awarded to US soldiers for the massacre at Wounded Knee, in which 300 unarmed Lakota people – mostly women and children – were slaughtered
5.) Instructing the Bureau of Indian Education to conduct a full-scale investigation into failure by the Tuba City Boarding School system to address egregious misconduct and support the nationwide reforms being demanded by parents and students to keep children safe at BIE run schools. Thank you in advance.
