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The Lasting Impact of Native American Residential Schools
Season 6 Episode 4 | 14m 39s
| Video has closed captioning.
Recently, the bodies of Indigenous children were discovered lying in unmarked graves at former Residential School sites in Canada. This tragic discovery begs multiple questions: Why did this happen? What exactly happened to Indigenous youth at the hundreds of similar residential schools in the United States? Why isn't this history taught in most U.S. school history classrooms?
