Decades of Silence Broken: Indigenous Survivors Recount Childhood Abuse and Forced Assimilation at U.S. Boarding Schools

For decades, Indigenous boarding school survivors carried their trauma in silence, and their testimonies now show why continued support for healing matters. An oral history project by the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, wrapping up in Tulsa, has collected video testimony from over 360 survivors across 19 states, work to be preserved in the Library of Congress. The…