Episode 12: The Federal Indian Boarding School Report

Episode 12: The Federal Indian Boarding School Report: Apology, Assimilation, and Ongoing Domination Introduction DOMINATION CHRONICLES SHOW NOTES January 10,2026 THE FEDERAL INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL REPORT: LANGUAGE, CONTEXT,AND SIGNIFICANCE Today we focus on what was billed as an “historic apology” by the US government for atrocities committed by the so called “Indian boarding schools”—prisons for children taken from their homes and subjected to what the Report calls “systematic militarized and identity alteration methodologies” to break their ties with their Peoples—all as part of what the Report calls “a twin policy: Indian territorial dispossession and Indian assimilation”. We focus on “assimilation” and “dispossession” within the Domination framework attacking Original Free Existence. Our conversation includes the ways in which laws and policies of Domination continue today in various guises and disguises. Transcript Download an AI Generated Transcript of this conversation Resources: U.S. Department of the Interior. 2022. Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report . Vol. I. https://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/dup/inline files/bsi investigative report may 2022 508.pdf U.S. Department of the Interior. 2022. Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report . Vol. II. https://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/media document/doi federal indian boarding school initiative investigative report vii final 508 compliant.pdf United States. 1819. “Indian Civilization Act.” Statutes at Large 3:516b. https://govtrackus.s3.amazonaws.com/legislink/pdf/stat/3/STATUTE 3 Pg516b.pdf “Report of the Committee, to Whom Was Referred So Much of the President’s Message as Relates to the Civilization of the Indian Tribes.” n.d. Accessed February 5, 2026. https://www.loc.gov/item/ca25001025/ “Raphael Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide.” n.d. Accessed February 5, 2026. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2t4ds5 Gessner, Robert. n.d. Massacre; a Survey of Today’s American Indian . Accessed February 5, 2026. https://archive.org/details/massacresurveyof0000gess i8w6 “A Conversation with Phillip Deere, Muskogee Creek.” n.d. Accessed February 5, 2026. YouTube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= KmB1ZNOwEQ Citation Steve Newcomb and Peter d’Errico, "The Federal Indian Boarding School Report: Apology, Assimilation, and Ongoing Domination," Domination Chronicles (Podcast), 2026 01 28,