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Horrific things happened to Native American kids at govt-run boarding schools
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Photo taken on July 6, 2021 shows the St. Boniface Indian Industrial School Cemetery in Banning, San Bernardino County, California, the United States. (Photo by Zeng Hui/Xinhua/IANS). Image Source: IANS News
Washington, July 20 : Horrific things happened to Native American children at boarding schools run by the US government, according to a media report.
Hundreds of thousands of Native Americans children were housed and educated in a network of institutions, created to civilize the savage , in the century and a half that the US government ran boarding schools for them, Xinhua news agency quoted The New York Times report published on Monday as saying.
2021-07-06 03:05:28 GMT2021-07-06 11:05:28(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
LOS ANGELES, July 5 (Xinhua) James Ramos, a California State Assemblyman and historian, on Monday joined other tribal leaders across Southern California to support a federal investigation of Indian boarding schools operated under the U.S. government s cultural assimilation program in the 19th and 20th centuries. U.S. Interior Sec. Deb Haaland ordered a probe into burial of students at Indian boarding schools after graves were found at Canadian sites. I cheer her historic move. SB Sun s Joe Nelson looked into California s schools and their history, Ramos tweeted on Monday afternoon.
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