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)
December 15, 2021
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Ex-boarding school for Native children owning up to its past
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.