By Nancy Marie Spears and Farrah Mina, Photo: Nick Oxford, The Imprint, August 29, 2022
The questions now being asked of American Indian survivors of boarding schools, foster care and adoption are expansive. They may require deep introspection. And they might hurt to answer:
“Would you say that you have experienced intergenerational trauma?
“What are the races of people in the foster family that you lived with for the longest time?”
“How often did your parent show affection, such as by hugging you or saying “‘I love you?’”
The Minneapolis-based National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, the First Nations Repatriation Institute, and the University of Minnesota are collaborating on a first-of-its-kind survey asking those difficult questions. Researchers have compiled close to 1,000 accounts, submitted on paper and online, for the Child Removal in Native Communities survey, which concludes September 11.
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