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‘We survived, we are resilient’: Remembering U.S. Indian boarding schools
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TPR: The Public's Radio
Nearly a thousand children died at Indian boarding schools funded by the U.S.
From 1819 to 1969, the federal government financed more than 400 Indian boarding schools.
A building on the campus was part of a federal Indian boarding school from 1887-1909.
“And to help us understand what our parents, grandparents — all of our relatives — went through.” Several members of her family attended boarding schools.
The horrors experienced in the boarding schools in the U.S. were for decades hidden or seldom acknowledged.