Taken from their families and sent to remote boarding schools, Native American children often faced sexual abuse by priests, brothers or sisters who ran the facilities.
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Thanks to newly published research, there is more public information than ever sharing the truth of the indigenous boarding school era. Despite this, the path ahead for reconciliation Native communities and the groups that created these schools remains muddy.