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The truths buried at US Indigenous boarding schools
The Take
English - December 15, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 360 ratingsNews Society & Culture aj+ world journalism reporters al jazeera global news news podcasts international news Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Unmarked graves, lost family members, and a reckoning long overdue – it’s a story familiar to Indigenous peoples in both Canada and the United States, where residential schools for native children ripped apart tribal nations. The US boarding school system was even more extensive than Canada’s, but much less is known about it, and its history is often surrounded by a culture of silence. So what will it take for a reckoning in the US?
In this episode:
Kavitha Chekuru (@KaviChek), producer for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines (@AJFaultLines) Denise Lajimodiere (@DLajimodiere), author and academic Eleanor Hadden, descendant of boarding school studentsConnect with The Take:
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