Dana Hedgpeth

More than 900 Native American children died at U.S. boarding schools

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For 150 years, U.S. policy forced Native American children into boarding schools built to eradicate their culture and assimilate them into White society.

Taken from their families and sent to remote boarding schools, Native American children often faced sexual abuse by priests, brothers or sisters who ran the facilities.

A nonprofit Native American group has found details about 115 more Indian boarding schools in the United States.

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