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Students and Indigenous advocates urge Shoreline School Board to adopt Indian boarding school education and mark Every Child Matters Day
Summary
At the March 4, 2025 Shoreline School Board meeting, students and members of the Urban Native Education Alliance urged the board to adopt Indian boarding school curriculum statewide and designate Sept. 30 as Every Child Matters Day, citing intergenerational trauma and a need for healing and truth-telling in schools.
On March 4, 2025, during the public-comment portion of a Shoreline School Board meeting, students and members of the Urban Native Education Alliance urged the board to adopt curriculum about Indian boarding schools and to recognize Sept. 30 as Every Child Matters Day (Orange Shirt Day).
Speakers said teaching the history of federal Indian boarding school policies is essential to acknowledging intergenerational trauma and ensuring students learn the full history of Indigenous peoples in the United States. "These were industrial schools, places not dedicated to improving the lives and education of their students, but dedicated to fundamentally changing who these students were at their core," said Rhett Hounsell, a senior…
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