Turtle Talk

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Accordingly, I am submitting to you Volume II of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report. This second volume adds to our understanding of the Federal Indian boarding school system by:

• Updating the official list of Federal Indian boarding schools to include 417 institutions across 37 states or then-territories;

• Providing detailed profiles of each Federal Indian boarding school;

• Identifying 1,025 other institutions that did not satisfy the four criteria used for this investigation, but were nevertheless used to advance similar assimilation and education policy goals;

• 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;

• Listing 127 different Treaties between the United States and Indian Tribes that implicate the Federal Indian boarding school system; and,

• Reporting that the Department estimates that the U.S. Government made appropriations available of more than $23.3 billion in FY23 inflation-adjusted dollars between 1871 and 1969 for the Federal Indian boarding school system as well as other similar institutions and associated assimilation policies.

The first volume is here.