Sunday’s listening session was part of the U.S. Department of Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. As part of the initiative, Sec. Deb Haaland is leading The Road to Healing, a year-long tour across the states to provide Indigenous survivors and their descendants an opportunity to share their experiences.
Anchorage stop part of The Road to Healing tour with Haaland and Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Bryan Newland|ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A crowd of nearly a hundred people gathered at the Native Heritage Center in Anchorage on Sunday to hear the stories from Alaska Native survivors as well as the descendants and ancestors of those who’ve been impacted by the federal Indian boarding school system.
For Alaska Natives, this was a rare opportunity to inform leaders in the federal government, face to face, about the intergenerational trauma they were subjected to. “It was just a total prison system, I can’t think of another way to express it,” LaBelle said. He described the beatings students would receive with a paddle that had holes throughout it, eventually drawing blood.Fred John Jr. was taken to the same boarding school in Wrangell at the age of 7. He spoke of his experience as No. 77 and described the way he longed to be anywhere else other than the school.“They still talk their language, while I lost mine.
“Every night you could just hear crying. First, it would start really slow, and then pretty soon you could hear the whole dorm crying, girls saying they want to go home,” Cherry said.
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