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From KQED.

You know, From KQBD Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

Coming up on forum, the U.S. has begun a comprehensive review of the legacy of federal boarding schools for indigenous children. Interior Secretary Deb Holland wants particular emphasis placed on cemeteries and possible burial sites

after the recent discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at residential schools in Canada.

For more than a century, tens of thousands of Native American children were forcibly sent to one of 350 U.S. boarding schools, some in California, where they were barred from speaking their languages and practicing their traditions.

Those who survived were changed by what Holland called unspoken traumas.

We learn more after this news.

Thank you. We learn more after this news. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. After the discovery of nearly a thousand unmarked graves at native residential schools in Canada, the U.S. in June launched its own review of federal boarding schools for indigenous children. From the 1800s through to the 1960s, the U.S. forcibly sent tens of thousands of native children to schools, some in California, that were designed to suppress their languages, beliefs, and identities.

Interior Secretary Deb Holland in announcing the federal investigation pledged the department

would address the intergenerational impact of the schools.

And joining me now is Lauren Peters, a member of

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