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The Reckoning: Native American boarding schools’ painful history unearthed (Part 2)

CLIP11/16/22

While reporting from South Dakota at one of the former Native American boarding schools, NBC News’ Cynthia McFadden presses Bryan Newland, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, about why the government doesn’t describe this dark chapter in history as “genocide.” Its traumatic legacy is very much alive today. So far, the ongoing search at Red Cloud Indian School has not unearthed remains.

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