Gwich'in Friend-Maker Sarah James is Goodwill Ambassador for Gwich'in and Caribou

Gwich'in Friend-Maker Sarah James Talks with AIM-West, Listen

Sarah talks about the birthing place, the place where the grass grows, where the calves learn to run from the wolves

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 15, 2025

Watch interview with Tony Gonzales, AIM-West https://www.aim-west.org/eagleandcondor

SAN FRANCISCO -- "I grew up on the land," says Sarah James, Neets’aii Gwich’in. It was fifteen miles from the nearest neighbor.

"I spoke only Gwich'in until I was thirteen years old, when I went to school."

"At that time there was no running water, there is no running water, just healthy running water, it's a river. There are no roads into Arctic Village, we hunt, trap, fish and gather, together."

UPDATE: Buried in History: The Native Children who Died in U.S. Boarding Schools and Were Not Reported in U.S. Interior's Report

The U.S. Interior Did Not Report Thousands of Children's Deaths in U.S. Boarding Schools

Geronimo's People: Chiricahua Apache children transferred from prison in Florida to Carlisle Indian School in 1886. Many died from tuberculosis.

The U.S. Interior drastically under-reported the deaths of children in U.S. Boarding Schools

'Run, run as fast as you can'

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Thousands of Native children died in U.S. boarding schools that were not reported by the U.S. Interior Department in its report. Suffering from malnutrition, diseases and abuse, the largest number of unreported children's deaths were at Chemawa Indian Training School in Oregon, followed by Haskell Indian Industrial School in Kansas. The largest total number of deaths were at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.