Episode 12: The Federal Indian Boarding School Report
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Steve and Peter discuss the Federal Indian Boarding School Report, and its function in domination and genocide.
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.
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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, https://dominationchronicles.com/episodes/e012-federal-indian-boarding-shool-report.
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Peter d’Errico graduated from Yale Law School in 1968. He was an attorney at Dinébe’iiná Náhiiłna be Agha’diit’ahii, Navajo Legal Services, in Shiprock, 1968-1970.
Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) has been researching the history of U.S. federal Indian law and policy for four decades.
