Tag: Native American boarding schools
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NARF Legal Review Covers Boarding School History and the Path to Healing
Here. An excerpt: Like a lot of the details of the United States historical relations with the indigenous inhabitants of this land, the story of the Indian boarding school policy of the United States government has largely been written out of the history books. Yet, this was a major federal policy. And it had major impacts, positive and negative, on indigenous…
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Oklahoma SCT Decides Case in Favor of Indian Football Players at Sequoyah High School in Talequah
Here is the opinion in Scott v. Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Assn.: 2013-10-01 OSSAA Opinion A summary of the case by Chad Smith, who represented the players: The OSSAA suspended 12 students at Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah and did not let compete in the state football championships. Sequoyah is an Indian boarding school run by…