IllumiNative to Launch ‘American Genocide: The Crimes of Native American Boarding Schools’ Podcast
variety.comJordan Moreau IllumiNative, a national Native woman-led social justice organization is launching a documentary-style podcast, titled “American Genocide: The Crimes of Native American Boarding Schools,” to uncover a horrifying truth about one of the United States government’s best kept secrets.
The podcast examines the atrocities and human rights violations committed against Native children at Native American boarding schools by the U.S.
federal government and Catholic Church and follows the ongoing federal investigation into these crimes. In the six-episode series, Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee), founder and executive director of IllumiNative, and Lashay Wesley (Choctaw), director of communications and storytelling at IllumiNative, investigate and search for answers and justice at Red Cloud Indian School, a former boarding school in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
As part of Secretary Deb Haaland’s Federal Indian Boarding Schools Initiative, the Department of the Interior (DOI) released an investigative report in 2022 which found that from 1819-1969, the federal Indian boarding school system involved more than 400 boarding schools operated by the federal government and the Catholic Church.
Read more on variety.com
