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'Truth and Healing Commission' could help Native American communities traumatized by government-run boarding schools that tried to destroy Indian culture

  • Written by David R. M. Beck, Professor of Native American Studies, The University of Montana
'Truth and Healing Commission' could help Native American communities traumatized by government-run boarding schools that tried to destroy Indian cultureA makeshift memorial for the Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File

The National Day of Remembrance for Native American children honors children who died years ago while attending the United States’ Indian boarding schools each...

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