A new report has revealed that nearly 1,000 Indigenous children have died in the US government-run boarding schools that sought to forcibly assimilate them into white society for over a century. US authorities began establishing abusive boarding schools in the early 1800s and continued operating them through the 1970s, with the stated goal of wiping out Native American culture. The findings don’t specify how each child died, but the causes of death included sickness, accidents and abuse during a 150-year period that ended in 1969, officials said. The US government has never acknowledged how many children attended such schools, how many children died or went missing from them or even how many schools existed.

Via Al Masirah