Children taken away from their families and forced to go to boarding schools, so they can be assimilated into society. It's not a dystopian novel, it's the history of North America for Native American/First Nations children.
And the stain got bigger recently, with the discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 215 young people, on the grounds of a closed boarding school in Kamloops, British Columbia. It's a shock followed by calls for further investigation.
We reached out to indigenous activists from our area. Mandy Yeahpau, a member of the Cherokee, Comanche, and Tarahumara tribes, and Natalie Jackson, a member of the Klamath Tribes, join us.
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