By Nancy Marie Spears\/the Imprint Hundreds of Indigenous people have testified. They\u2019ve sobbed, cursed and laughed in spite of it all. Many told stories about their time in boarding schools that they\u2019ve kept inside for decades, finally able to begin recovering from childhood trauma. An oral history project led by the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is wrapping up in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Friday. To date, the nonprofit\u2019s historians have collected video testimony from more than 360 Indigenous survivors in 19 states \u2014 stories set to be preserved in the Library of Congress for years to come. Iona Mad Plume, who is Blackfeet and grew up on her tribe\u2019s reservation in Montana, said she \u201ccan\u2019t emphasize enough\u201d how healing her experience was. She testified in front of a… <\/p>\n
By Nancy Marie Spears\/the Imprint Hundreds of Indigenous people have testified. They\u2019ve sobbed, cursed and laughed in spite of it all. Many told stories about their time in boarding schools that they\u2019ve kept inside for decades, finally able to begin recovering from childhood trauma. An oral history project led by the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is wrapping up in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Friday. To date, the nonprofit\u2019s historians have collected video testimony from more than 360 Indigenous survivors in 19 states \u2014 stories set to be preserved in the Library of Congress for years to come. Iona Mad Plume, who is Blackfeet and grew up on her tribe\u2019s reservation in Montana, said she \u201ccan\u2019t emphasize enough\u201d how healing her experience was. She testified in front of a... <\/p>\n