An American Indian Boarding School That Was Once Feared Is Now Celebrated

Federal Indian boarding schools left a decades long legacy of abuse, neglect and forced assimilation of Indigenous children.

Last year, when the federal government finally acknowledged its role — that painful history drew attention to a few schools that remain open.

NPR's Sequoia Carrillo and KOSU's Allison Herrera visited Riverside Indian School in southwest Oklahoma to find out how a school that once stripped children of their Native identity now helps strengthen it.

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