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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 The Washington Post. Many of the students had been forcibly removed from their families and tribes as part of a government policy of cultural eradication and assimilation. The new report was led by Dana Hedgpeth, an enrolled member of the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe of North Carolina, and expanded its reach beyond federal records to achieve a full public accounting of the death toll of what many scholars and survivors have described as "prison camps," not schools. Hedgpeth shares how some tribes have now been able to recover the remains of children who had been buried at the boarding schools and return them for traditional burials in their ancestral homelands. "The impact of these schools is still being felt in many ways," she says.
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Voters in the struggling Pennsylvania city of New Castle backed Donald Trump hoping he'd curb inflation. But he'll be under pressure to cut federal spending.
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Biden changes the sentences of 37 of 40 on federal death row to life without parole, saying he was convinced "that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level."
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