Ex-boarding school for Native children owning up to its past
Multi-immersion teacher Randilynn Boucher-Giago assists a student during a lesson on boarding school history Sept. 29, 2021, in Pine Ridge, S.D. The lesson, Boucher-Giago says, aims to teach students about what many of their grandparents endured as well as their own resilience. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)
Walker Stover, a junior at Red Cloud Indian School, hands out orange ribbons for Orange Shirt Day on Sept. 20, 2021, in Pine Ridge, S.D. Students and teachers wore orange in solidarity with Indigenous children of past generations who suffered cultural loss, family separation and sometimes abuse and neglect while compelled to attend hundreds of residential schools that once dotted the map across the United States and Canada from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — Middle schooler Rarity Cournoyer stood at the heart of the Red Cloud Indian School campus and chanted a prayer song firmly and solemnly in the Lakota language — in a place where past generations of students were punished for speaking their mother tongue...
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