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Colorado documents abuse of Native students at state-run schools
Hendrik Sybrandy
03:25

An important and very unhappy part of the history of indigenous American people is gradually coming to light. For years, Native American children were torn from their families and forced to attend federally-run boarding schools in an effort to assimilate them to the American culture. 

Many of those children suffered neglect and abuse. Colorado has become the latest U.S. state to document that mistreatment. 

CGTN’s Hendrik Sybrandy reports.

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