At least 973 Native American children died in the US government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by officials who called on the government to apologize for the schools.
  • Kaffe@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    That is an official undercount, as it is only having checked 65 of the 400 schools in existence.

    An academic estimates based on population losses and speaking to the families who have lost children, that over 40,000 perished in the system.