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Prompted by the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of former Indigenous residential schools in Canada, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced that her department will take steps to reconcile the troubled legacy of federal boarding school policies. Like me, Haaland has relatives who attended an American Indian government boarding school.
As a historian, I have been troubled by misinformation in regional and national media about the history of government boarding schools. Uncertainty exists over how long the boarding school era lasted, the ages of students, and how much coercion was used to make Indians attend the schools. Further, because some American Indians attended mission schools, which were separate institutions, the federal boarding school story gets mixed up in that history.
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