'I want apologies. I want my language back. I want our land back. I want everything back.'
Dorothy McLane reflects on her traumatic experiences at the Rosebud Boarding school, which abused indigenous students.in the Interior Department's investigation into the legacy and lasting trauma from Indian boarding schools.
"Their hair was immediately cut…some had kerosene put in their hair. And they said it burned…they were given uniforms," Lajimodiere said. "They had to work half a day… in the kitchen, in the laundry room…work in the fields that they didn't get paid for."Francis Benjamin Johnston/Buyenlarge via Getty Images
Haaland, the first Indigenous cabinet member, has been traveling around the country as part of the "Road to Healing Tour," to meet with Indigenous communities.ABC News She told "Nightline" she vividly remembers being forced to run laps around a building and being beaten by a school matron as punishment.
"We didn't go to boarding school, but we still deal with the same traumas that our grandparents and great-grandparents went through," Brave said."I kind of just I'm hoping that people see how resilient we are as Native American people because they pretty much tried to kill us off and they couldn't," she said.
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