Human rights?! Illustration: Liu Rui/GT
GLOBAL TIMES: The Washington Post on Saturday covered the story of a 12-year-old girl, an Alaska native student, whose remains was buried more than 100 years ago in Pennsylvania. She was among more than 100,000 indigenous children distributed to around 375 boarding schools throughout the US from the late 1800s through the 1960s. It was believed they could be "civilized" by being forced to leave home.
"To take children away from their homes and families and subject them to assimilation is to commit cultural genocide," the Washington Post quoted Christine DiinDiisi McCleave, executive director of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, as saying. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary, said last week that the department will identify boarding facilities, cemeteries and the children buried there to "uncover the truth about the loss of human life, and the lasting consequences of the schools."
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