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Research uncovers role of churches and religious groups in Indigenous boarding schools

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For more than a century, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools. Those schools stripped children of their identities and cultures. Deaths are estimated to be in the thousands as they suffered abuse, neglect, beatings and forced labor. Stephanie Sy reports on new findings about the role churches and religious groups played.

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U.S. & Canada
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indigenous americans, inidigenous boarding schools, native boarding schools
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