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A damning government investigation and expert testimony before a key Senate committee are shedding new light on how federally run Indigenous boarding schools traumatized generations of Native Hawaiians and decimated their language, The Yappie’s Mary Yang reports.
Many of these schools used corporal punishment and starvation as tools for forced assimilation. Hundreds of Indigenous children died in the system, according to a May report released by the Interior Department.
