Chapter 2: Child Sexual Abuse in Federal Indian Schools is one chapter within “A Report of the Special Committee Investigations of the Select Committee On Indian Affairs. Final Report and Legislative Recommendations.” It begins on page 93 in the text.
This chapter details how the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) allowed the sexual abuse of Native American children to go unpunished within BIA-run schools. The children who were abused carried this trauma with them, and often did not have the resources available to seek help. Despite the Child Abuse Prevention Act having all 50 states strengthen mandatory reporting laws, no federal reporting law applied to schools on Native American land.
Source: Congress of the U.S., and Senate Selection Committee on Indian Affairs. A Report of the Special Committee on Investigations of the Selection Committee on Indian Affairs. Final Report and Legislative Recommendations, 101st Cong., 1st Session. Washington, DC: 1989.
