Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Study sheds light on dark history of U.S. Indigenous residential schools

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, seen in Washington, D.C., in November 2021

A first-of-its-kind U.S. federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 400 such schools that were supported by the U.S. government and more than 50 associated burial sites.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-indigenous-boarding-schools-study-department-interior-1.6449330?cmp=rss

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