Remembering the Indian boarding schools

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Remembering the Indian boarding schools

Sat, 03/14/2020 - 05:56
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WASHINGTON — Some 180 white tombstones — each belonging to a child who died while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School stood row-by-row in the dewy Pennsylvania grass, bearing the names of those who lost their lives while being forced to assimilate to a new world. Between 1,500 and 1,800 Native American students from Oklahoma attended the school in Carlisle, Penn., said Jim Gerenscer,…

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