Zagaswe'iwe: Council to Address Holy Childhood Indian Boarding School, comprised of survivors and descendants of Indian Boarding Schools, are requesting your support to make an addendum to PA170 of 2016. 

 THIS PETITION IS REQUESTING THE FOLLOWING BE ADDED to PA 170 of 2016:

(d) “Indian Boarding Schools” means the forced abduction of indigenous children by American government agents, sent to schools away from their families to accomplish the systematic destruction of indigenous cultures and communities. The stated purpose of the policy was to “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” There were over 350 government- funded and often church-run, Indian Boarding Schools across the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Currently PA170 only includes the following: PA170 of 2016 only defines two events-

(a)“Armenian Genocide” means the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 1,500,000 Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish Empire and its collaborators.

(b) “Genocide” means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

(c) “Holocaust” means the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 other individuals by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

For more information on PA170 of 2016 please see this link:

https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2015-2016/publicact/htm/2016-PA-0170.htm