At least 3,100 Native Americans killed in US boarding schools: report
Teona Gherasim
WASHINGTON: The number of Native Americans who were killed in US boarding schools is at least triple the official government figure, the Washington Post reported Sunday (Dec 22). From 1819 until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to involuntarily assimilate Native children into European settler culture, including forced conversion to Christianity. An investigation by the Post documented 3,104 Indigenous students who died at the schools
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