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tens of thousands of indigenous children, sending them to boarding schools where they were forced to change their names and punished for speaking their languages. a policy the report calls traumatic and violent. the findings announced today by deb haaland, who is laguna pueblo and the first native american cabinet secretary. her grandparents were forced to attend the schools. i am here because my ancestors persevered and the work we will do with the federal indian boarding school initiative will have a transformational impact on the generations who follow reporter: the report found the u.s. operated or supported 408 boarding schools in 37 states from 1819 to 1969. the highest concentration in oklahoma, arizona, and new mexico there was rampant physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. disease, malnourishment, overcrowding, and a lack of health care. children who broke the rules were disciplined with corporal punishment such as solitary confinement, flogging, withholding food, whipping

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