Alastair Lee Bitsóí, Author at High Country News https://www.hcn.org A nonprofit independent magazine of unblinking journalism that shines a light on all of the complexities of the West. Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:41:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2-32x32.png Alastair Lee Bitsóí, Author at High Country News https://www.hcn.org 32 32 229054741 Native mental health providers seek to heal boarding school scars with informed and appropriate treatment https://www.hcn.org/issues/55-9/native-mental-health-providers-seek-to-heal-boarding-school-scars-with-informed-and-appropriate-treatment/ Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/native-mental-health-providers-seek-to-heal-boarding-school-scars-with-informed-and-appropriate-treatment/ Dena Ned is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, and a professor and social worker at the University of Utah.

As more visibility is brought to the legacy of U.S. boarding schools, Indigenous mental health providers and social workers feel that therapy must address the unique trauma carried by survivors.

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]]> 226335 Tribal nations celebrate new monument near the Grand Canyon https://www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-nations-celebrate-their-new-monument-in-the-grand-canyon/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/tribal-nations-celebrate-their-new-monument-in-the-grand-canyon/ A view of Marble Canyon and the Vermillion Cliffs from above the Kaibab Plateau shows the northeastern parcel of the newly designated monument.

How decades of Indigenous advocacy led to the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.

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]]> 207241 Who does the federal boarding schools investigation leave out? https://www.hcn.org/articles/who-does-the-federal-boarding-schools-investigation-leave-out/ Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2022/11/22/who-does-the-federal-boarding-schools-investigation-leave-out/

Hastiin Tadidiin was an early victim of the boarding school system. But his story is not yet part of the federal investigation.

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]]> 98292 The night the Greyhounds came https://www.hcn.org/issues/54-12/indigenous-affairs-education-the-night-the-greyhounds-came/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.hcn.org/2022/09/08/the-night-the-greyhounds-came/

In northern Arizona and southern Utah, shared experiences of the boarding school round-ups live with survivors to this day.

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