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1 week ago | 
sahanjournal.com | Nancy Spears |Alberto Gomez
This story was originally published by The Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice. Sign up for The Imprint’s free newsletters here. When considering what Indigenous mothers might need when they are about to give birth, Ruth Buffalo pictures a warm community-based center, full of laughter and love. Relativesare singing soft lullabies in their Native languages. Family members could dance ceremonially around mother and baby after birth.
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2 months ago | 
imprintnews.org | Sara Tiano |Nancy Spears |Susanti Sarkar |Jeremy Loudenback
In a swipe at social spending that stunned state and local officials and advocates for the poor nationwide, the Trump administration ordered a halt to virtually all federal spending on social services issuing a directive that sought to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Nancy Spears |Alberto Gomez
In its attempt to crush Native America through assimilation, the U.S. government created, operated, funded and perpetuated a network of hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country. For centuries, the government forcibly severed Indigenous children from their families and tribal homes. Countless students were subjected to sexual, emotional and physical abuse. Nearly 1,000 schoolchildren died. Many were buried in unmarked graves.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
imprintnews.org | Nancy Spears |Nancy Marie
In its attempt to crush Native America through assimilation, the U.S. government created, operated, funded and perpetuated a network of hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country. For centuries, the government forcibly severed Indigenous children from their families and tribal homes. Countless students were subjected to sexual, emotional and physical abuse. Nearly 1,000 schoolchildren died. Many were buried in unmarked graves.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Nancy Spears |Trisha Collopy
This story is being co-published withThe Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
imprintnews.org | Nancy Spears |Nancy Marie
Standing beneath the foothills of the Estrella Mountains near the Gila River Indian Community, President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned, first-ever apology to survivors of Indian boarding schools today, calling the years between 1819 and 1969 shameful and “one of the most horrific chapters in American history.” Surrounded by Native American tribal leaders in Arizona, the 46th U.S. president appeared visibly emotional as he belted out his main message to the assembled: “I formally...
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
imprintnews.org | Nancy Spears |Nancy Marie
A new online training portal has been created to assist tribes, social workers and child welfare attorneys on the intricacies of laws that affect Indigenous children and families. Created by the California Tribal Families Coalition, the portal launched Oct. 15.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
sahanjournal.com | Nancy Spears |Alberto Gomez
This story is being co-published with The Imprint, a national nonprofit news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice. They’ve come from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. From the Ojibwe and Inupiaq. Smoke rises from bundles of sweetgrass, cedar and sage as they tell their stories of surviving Indian boarding schools. For some, the recounting is not new. They bring weathered black-and-white family photos to honor relatives lost.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
imprintnews.org | Nancy Spears |Nancy Marie
They’ve come from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. From the Ojibwe and Inupiaq. Smoke rises from bundles of sweetgrass, cedar and sage as they tell their stories of surviving Indian boarding schools. For some, the recounting is not new. They bring weathered black-and-white family photos to honor relatives lost. Others, until now, have never disclosed their still-raw childhood trauma.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
imprintnews.org | Alex Perez |Nancy Spears |Nancy Marie
Amid drums, smudging and chants to “bring our children home,” supporters of the Indian Child Welfare Act gathered early this morning outside the Minnesota Capitol building, as the state’s highest court considered the latest legal threat to the bedrock 1978 law. The rally outside the Supreme Court today was deeply personal for Korina Barry, of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.
