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U.S. report identifies burial sites linked to boarding schools for Native Americans

A makeshift memorial for the dozens of Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school that was once located nearby is displayed under a tree at a public park in Albuquerque, N.M., in 2021. Susan Montoya Bryan/AP hide caption

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U.S. report identifies burial sites linked to boarding schools for Native Americans

May 11, 2022 • A federal study of Native American boarding schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 400 such schools and more than 50 associated burial sites.