The Quakers are giving Kake $92,000 to help fund a healing center, along with a formal, public apology for harm they caused to Kake in the 1900s.
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In Juneau, Haa Tóoch Lichéesh solstice celebration offers a chance to heal
Organizers say the event is a way to decolonize the holiday season.
President of First Alaskans Institute testifies at committee hearing on federal boarding schools
La Quen Náay Liz Medicine Crow pointed to the history of Alaska Native youth being sent out of state to boarding schools and to punitive asylums in the Lower 48.
Wrangell administration, tribe to survey site of former boarding school for Native children
A government boarding school for Native children in Wrangell was one of the first of its kind in Alaska. Now, there are plans to redevelop the site of the former Bureau of Indian Affairs facility that was open for 43 years.
In Alaska, family separations evoke past trauma
A survivor of a BIA boarding school for Alaska Natives says the separation of children at the border is reminiscent of her own experiences. The context is different: but the traumatic effects are arguably similar.
Tlingit elders write boarding school history for future generations
“We’re helping to write down the story of how boarding schools are affecting us and our families today, so that our children and grandchildren will know the history.”
‘Assimilation’ playwright flips the script on Native history
In a dystopian future, Western civilization has crumbled and indigenous people are in control. That’s the premise of Jack Dalton’s play “Assimilation.”