US Tribes call for testimonies on missing American Indian and Alaska Native Boarding School Children for submission to the United Nations
Respectful greetings to all Tribal Nations and allies.
The Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) is working with the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) to file a submission with the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID) to call on the United States to provide a full accounting of American Indian and Alaska Native children who were taken into government custody under the U.S. Boarding School Policy and whose fate and whereabouts remain unknown.
On June 15, 2017, at its Mid-Year Conference in Connecticut, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) adopted Resolution MOH-17-014, sponsored by the Chickasaw Nation, encouraging Tribal Nations, families, and descendants to provide information on children who never returned home from Indian Boarding Schools. Read the Press Release about the NCAI Resolution and call for testimony.
NABS, IITC, NARF, and NCAI respectfully request that families and Tribes gather testimony and share information, where appropriate, for the UN Filing
In addition, please help us reach out to families and relatives who may have specific information or testimonies they are willing to share about family and Tribal members who attended boarding schools, but remain unaccounted for or are still missing which could be included in a submission to the UNWGEID calling on the United States government to provide this information to the families and Tribes of those individuals.
Please help us spread the word with those who might have information about the children who went missing at boarding schools. The time for healing is now.
How You Can Help
- Share the call for testimony with Tribal communities and on social media.
- Talk with your relatives and ask if any one in your family went missing at Boarding Schools.
- Contact us with your story and testimony.
We have the right to know. We deserve to heal.
For additional information on this UN Submission or to provide information or testimony, contact Heather Whiteman Runs Him at 303-447-8760 or Christine McCleave at 720-408-5585.
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