Last month, President Biden issued an apology for the U.S. Indian Boarding Schools program—one of the most destructive assimilation policies in American history.
The apology came in the wake of a Department of the Interior investigative report which quantified the economic, social, and human impacts of the program. The report also calls on the federal government to pursue policies that help the nation’s Indigenous communities heal and raise awareness about the boarding schools’ harmful effects on Native welfare.
In a new analysis, Robert Maxim and Glencora Haskins provide an overview of the boarding schools program, discuss the state of Native American education today, and outline additional policy actions that are needed.
Funding and development. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 allocate billions of dollars for programs that are significant to rural America. Anthony F. Pipa and Zoe Swarzenski explain that much of this funding will be implemented by intermediaries and outline what’s at stake for rural development in the years ahead.
Challenges and opportunities. On the Reimagine Rural podcast, Anthony F. Pipa takes listeners across the country to hear directly from rural leaders and policymakers about their efforts to build thriving and sustainable communities.
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