A U.S. government investigation into the dark history of Native American boarding schools has found "marked or unmarked burial sites" at 53 of them, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on Wednesday.
Highlights
- Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the investigation last year into the dark history of Native American boarding schools in the United States.
- The schools used education to change culture so tribal land could be taken.
- Many children were abused at the schools, and tens of thousands were never heard from again, activists and researchers say.
- The Interior Department has identified more than 98 million pages of documents that may relate to the boarding school system that still need to be evaluated.
- The report includes recommendations for federal funding programs to preserve the Native American languages and establishing a memorial memorial program to preserve Native American language and stamp out a stamp on the schools.
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