The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report, Volume II, is the United States Department of the Interior's own 2024 official inquiry into the government's historical boarding school system for Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children. As a primary government document from the responsible agency, it carries direct institutional authority for its findings to date: 417 schools across 37 states and territories, 973 recorded child deaths and 65 identified burial sites. Its strength is federal records access no outside researcher has. Its limit is that a government self-investigation is not independent scholarship, and its own counts are stated as findings to date, not a final tally.
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The United States Department of the Interior's own 2024 investigative report, the top tier reflecting a primary government document from the agency directly responsible, with federal records access no outside researcher has. Its limit is that a government self-investigation is not independent scholarship, and its own counts are stated as findings to date rather than a final tally. Notes417 schools across 37 states and territories; 973 recorded child deaths; 65 burial sites.
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AuthorUnited States Department of the Interior
Publication Year2024
URLhttps://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/media_document/doi_federal_indian_boarding_school_initiative_investigative_report_vii_final_508_compliant.pdf
Source Typegovernment
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