IMPACT

With fewer than 10 fluent Comanche language speakers, the urgency to preserve this school has never been greater.  

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the school is experiencing space constraints and is projected to outgrow its current facilities by 2025. They currently operate out of semi-permanent bungalows with only five classrooms.

These Comanche Academy students deserve a stable home in the form of a permanent state-of-the-art school.  The school has been gifted land to build a new school at Fort Sill, a former boarding school, as the site for a new, state-of-the-art facility. By reclaiming this land, this symbolic transformation would turn a place of forced assimilation into a cultural celebration, resilience, and healing space.  

The work is not done.  resources Are needed to build and create this school. 

Your donation could make this possible.

  • The best way to help is by supporting the Turetii Haniʔaiku Foundation financially as they raise funds to build the kids a permanate school on the lands of Fort Sill Boarding School, reclaiming the very land where their elders experienced forced assimilation.

  • In the 1800s, many Native American children were forced into boarding schools under government assimilation laws. These young Native kids endured child labor, physical punishment, and were banned from speaking their Native languages. Oklahoma was home to more Indian Boarding Schools than any other state. Seventy-nine to be exact. The effects are still felt today.

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