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The truths buried at US Indigenous boarding schools
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Unmarked graves, lost family members, and a reckoning long overdue – it’s a story familiar to Indigenous peoples in both Canada and the United States, where residential schools for native children ripped apart tribal nations. The US boarding school system was even more extensive than Canada’s, but much less is known about it, and its history is often surrounded by a culture of silence. So what will it take for a reckoning in the US?
In this episode:
Kavitha Chekuru (@KaviChek), producer for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines (@AJFaultLines)
Denise Lajimodiere (@DLajimodiere), author and academic
Eleanor Hadden, descendant of boarding school students
Connect with The Take:
Twitter (@AJTheTake), Instagram (@ajthetake) and Facebook (@TheTakePod)
In this episode:
Kavitha Chekuru (@KaviChek), producer for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines (@AJFaultLines)
Denise Lajimodiere (@DLajimodiere), author and academic
Eleanor Hadden, descendant of boarding school students
Connect with The Take:
Twitter (@AJTheTake), Instagram (@ajthetake) and Facebook (@TheTakePod)
Released:
Dec 15, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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