Indian Boarding Schools – Webinar

Wednesday, March 6, 2024
90 minutes starting
3:00 PM Hawaii = 5:00 PM Pacific = 8:00 PM Eastern

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Jerilyn DeCoteau (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) offers this slide presentation about the federal government’s policy of family separation and forced assimilation of Native children and the ongoing impacts experienced by Native American families today. Jerilyn is co-director of Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, a program of Friends Peace Teams. She is past president of the board of directors of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. Jerilyn is an attorney and currently serves on the supreme courts of the Kiowa Nation of Oklahoma and the San Ildefonso Pueblo.

A participant in a previous webinar wrote: "I learned so much from Jerilyn's talk. Everyone in our country needs to understand this history in order to seek justice and healing in Native communities. Jerilyn's openness about how her own family has been harmed by the boarding schools was very moving. It opened my heart."