BOULDER, Colorado --- In the Cumberland Valley, located west of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania, rows of white headstones line the green grass of a cemetery where 186 children are buried. Many of the headstones are marked “Unknown.” “What do we need to do to get people to pay attention to this?” Don Wharton, a senior attorney with the
American Indian Boarding Schools: A Legacy Of Pain Enters A Phase For Healing
“What is clear is that you cannot tell any community how to do their own healing,” an attorney with the Native American Rights Foundation tells MintPress about healing the historical trauma of boarding schools. “They must define their own process. We cannot impose it.”
