'We are in touch with the federal government and lobbyists to help educate them that the Indian mission system didn't start with Carlisle,' the chief said.
Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes has come forward demanding a former Kansas boarding school be included in a federal initiative to investigate whether thousands of Native American children were buried at former state-funded boarding schools across the U.S. in the 1800s and early 1900s.
A spokesman for the Department of the Interior said in an email the agency has only recently begun working on the federal program and no information was yet available about individual locations. "It was coercion," Barnes said." were told if they wanted to fit in, they needed to not act so different, behave and get along. It was considered the best solution for our future."
Barnes said the Shawnee Tribe, which has headquarters in Miami, Oklahoma, has a strong working relationship with the historic society and the city of Fairway, which oversees the mission's daily operations. He said it should be the federal government's responsibility to investigate the mission site. Most of the original 2,000 acres owned by the mission has been developed. At a minimum, the Shawnee Tribe wants the federal government to conduct ground-penetrating radar searches on the 12 acres that remain at the mission site to search for unmarked graves.
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