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美国国家公共电台 NPR--Burial sites linked to Native American boarding schools ID'd in government report

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Burial sites linked to Native American boarding schools ID'd in government report

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An Interior Department report identified more than 400 Native American boarding schools that assimilated and often abused Indigenous2 children. The probe has uncovered more than 500 deaths so far.

A MARTINEZ, HOST:

For about a hundred and fifty years, Indigenous children were separated from their families and sent away to what were called Indian schools. Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the initial findings. From member station WXXI in Rochester, N.Y., Noelle Evans reports.

NOELLE E C EVANS, BYLINE3: The investigation4 is not complete, but what we know now is that there were more than 400 of these schools across the country until the late 1960s.

CRYSTAL ECHO HAWK5: This is among the original sins of this country. And the fact that the truth is finally coming to light is deeply emotional and it's important.

EVANS: That's Crystal Echo Hawk. She's a citizen of the Pawnee Nation and executive director of the Native American social justice organization IllumiNative6.

ECHO HAWK: Our relatives went to those schools and faced extreme abuse - you know, being beaten, mouths washed out with soap.

EVANS: In a letter, Assistant Secretary of Indigenous Affairs Bryan Newland highlighted some key findings - that the U.S. directly targeted Native American children for cultural assimilation and that this was central to a broader plan to remove Indigenous people from their lands. To this end, systemic, militarized and identity alteration7 methods were applied8 in the school system. Echo Hawk calls it disturbing.

ECHO HAWK: This was not just a couple bad apples in schools - that this was a policy, a systematic9 policy.

EVANS: Students were barred from speaking their native language. Rules were enforced through corporal punishment, solitary10 confinement11 and withholding12 food. Older students were sometimes made to punish younger children. Abuse in all forms was rampant13.

Echo Hawk's grandfather was a survivor14 of the Pawnee Boarding School in Oklahoma. She says he knew the Pawnee language until he didn't. Toward the end of his life, he wrote down some Pawnee words he still remembered. Echo Hawk still holds on to a slip of yellow paper that he'd given her.

ECHO HAWK: And it just seemed like in the last, you know, decade or so of his life, he was really - it was just like he was trying to get the things back that were taken from him.

EVANS: Not every student survived. Through this investigation, about 50 burial sites have been found so far. More than 500 deaths have been accounted for, but the department expects the actual death toll15 could be in the tens of thousands.

DANTE DESIDERIO: The challenge to the rest of America is when you went to elementary school or middle school or high school, did you have a cemetery16 for the children that died at the high school?

EVANS: That's Dante Desiderio. He's a citizen of the Sappony Nation and CEO of the National Congress of American Indians.

DESIDERIO: We need those children returned home to their communities, and we also need to recognize this experience. Our fellow classmates died in the schools and were buried out back.

EVANS: Desiderio says this has to be the start of a broader investigation across government agencies to remedy the countless17 damages caused. And he wants people to recognize that this is not in the past. Across all of Indian country, survivors18 and their descendants continue to suffer the consequences of a policy that was created to annihilate19 their way of being.

DESIDERIO: But we don't want to leave the people who've gone through this vulnerable and just have the federal government move on. We can't do that.

EVANS: The investigation will continue with an additional $7,000 from Congress.

For NPR News, I'm Noelle Evans.

[POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In this report, we incorrectly say Congress has given $7,000 to continue the investigation. In fact, the amount is $7 million.]

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2 indigenous YbBzt     
adj.土产的,土生土长的,本地的
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4 investigation MRKzq     
n.调查,调查研究
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n.鹰,骗子;鹰派成员
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  • The hawk swooped down on the rabbit and killed it.鹰猛地朝兔子扑下来,并把它杀死。
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adj.照明的,照亮的,启蒙的
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11 confinement qpOze     
n.幽禁,拘留,监禁;分娩;限制,局限
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12 withholding 7eXzD6     
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13 rampant LAuzm     
adj.(植物)蔓生的;狂暴的,无约束的
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14 survivor hrIw8     
n.生存者,残存者,幸存者
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n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
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幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
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  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
19 annihilate Peryn     
v.使无效;毁灭;取消
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  • We should bear in mind that we have to annihilate the enemy.我们要把歼敌的重任时刻记在心上。
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