Domination Chronicles: The Federal Indian Boarding School Report

The Federal Indian Boarding School Report names a history of forced assimilation, but Newcomb and d’Errico ask what such reports can and cannot do when the larger domination framework remains in place. This episode examines apology, documentation, dispossession, and the language used to describe violence against Native children, families, nations, and lifeways.

The conversation insists that boarding schools were not isolated abuses. They were part of a system designed to attack Indigenous free existence by reshaping children, language, land relations, and memory. The hosts read the report through that wider frame, asking whether official acknowledgment can become another form of containment if it does not challenge the legal and political structures that made the schools possible. This episode matters for anyone working on truth-telling, repair, or institutional accountability. It reminds us that naming harm is necessary, but not sufficient, when domination continues under new administrative forms.

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