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More than 3,100 Indigenous students died at boarding schools in the United States between 1828 and 1970 — three times the number of deaths reported earlier this year by the Department of Interior, according to a new investigation by. Many of the students had been forcibly removed from their families and tribes as part of a government policy of cultural eradication and assimilation.
And we expanded upon that work. Again, the Interior Department looked exclusively at federal records. We expanded beyond that, built upon that and looked at hundreds of thousands of records involving census rolls, school enrollment records, death certificates, historical maps, talking to researchers who had done thesis papers and for years — worked for 20 years on researching specific schools.
It still gives me the shivers to think of how we were so — such an honor to be able to watch their journey as they were exhumed at Carlisle, in a very sterile place with these white marble tombstones. Think of a mini Arlington in a way. We watched as those tribal members and 19 of her relatives stood for two days and watched them to be exhumed. They sat on traditional buffalo robes. They used ceremonial pipes. They sang. They drummed. They spoke in their own tribal language.
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