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A new archive is helping some Native families heal

caption: 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)
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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)

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 article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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