Chiricahua Apache boys and girls pose outdoors at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Penn., after their arrival from Fort Marion, Fla., in November 1886.
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Religious groups call for commission on Indian boarding school policy
A number of Catholic groups and Protestant denominations are calling for the United States to establish a Truth and Healing Commission to reckon with the country’s history of boarding schools that separated thousands of Indigenous children from their families and cultures during the 19th and 20th centuries.
