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A new archive is helping some Native families heal

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The Forest Grove Indian Industrial Training School in Oregon was a boarding school for Native American children that operated from 1880 to 1885. (Courtesy of National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition)
The Forest Grove Indian Industrial Training School in Oregon was a boarding school for Native American children that operated from 1880 to 1885. (Courtesy of National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition)

A new National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive aims to help Native American communities heal from the painful consequences of government- and church-run boarding schools that operated for more than a century.

Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes learns more with Fallon Carey, interim digital archives manager for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.

This segment aired on July 22, 2024.

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