In a report, 3 years in the making, and released this year, detailed the history of Andrew Jackson's plan to erase Native American's history and identities. One shameful finding was that nearly 1,000 children died while in the care of the U.S.
Students
gathered for
an assembly at
Hampton Institute
in Hampton, Va., about 1900.
Bryan Newland, assistant secretary of Indian affairs and member of the Bay Hills Indian Community, says “This report further proves what Indigenous peoples across the country have known for generations: That federal policies were set out to break us, obtain our territories, and destroy our cultures and our lifeways."
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