Had President Lincoln lived, . . . .

[David Lockmiller]

U.S. to Search Former Native American Schools for Children’s Remains

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced a new initiative that would delve into the records of the federal schools to which Native American children were forcibly relocated for 150 years.

As a member of the Laguna Pueblo, Ms. Haaland is the first Native American cabinet secretary in the United States and has made Native American issues a top priority at the department.

She said in a memo that in most instances, Indigenous parents were not able to visit their children at the schools, where students endured “routine injury and abuse” and where “some perished and were interred in unmarked graves.”



Had President Lincoln lived, . . . .