After more than a year-and-a-half of investigating, the U.S. Interior Department published a report detailing the atrocities committed at boarding schools against Indigenous people.
The report investigated 408 federal Indian boarding schools across 37 states that operated between 1819 and 1969. Fifteen were in Washington state, including two in Federal Way, one in Olympia, and one in Tacoma.
Oklahoma had the most of these boarding schools in the country, with 76, with Arizona, 47, and New Mexico, 46, having the second and third most.
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