Legislation that would call for Congress to investigate the federal government’s Indian boarding school policies, which led to the attempted termination and assimilation of Native Americans from 1819 through the 1960s, passed the Senate’s Indian Affairs committee with unanimous bipartisan support. The bill, called the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States, was introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on May 18, with bipartisan support from 26 mostly Democratic senators. Warren says it was “past time that the voices of survivors and other community members are fully heard.
The Director of Native American programs at the Plains Art Museum named 2023 Bush Fellow.
Joe Williams, of Fargo, was one of 24 leaders chosen to receive up to $100,000 to use toward completing an academic degree or to fund a self-designed learning program. Joe Williams, director of Native American programs at the Plains Art Museum in Fargo, is among 24 recipients of this year’s Bush Fellowship. Williams, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe, earned his bachelor’s degree in Native American Studies at the University of South Dakota and his master’s degree in fine arts from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Those are your headlines at this hour. I’m Colette Keith in the KIPI News center.
