After 144 years, bringing home remains from a residential school

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The Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania was the first government-run residential school in North America. Earlier this fall, the remains of two boys, who died there more than a century ago, were returned to their tribes in South Dakota, more than 2,000 kilometres away. It’s a process that took six years – and has only begun the healing and closure to the people who were part of it.

Willow Fiddler, a national reporter for The Globe, visited those tribes to find out what it took to bring their boys home. She’s on The Decibel to talk about how the United States is reckoning with its history of boarding schools, and where Canada stands when it comes to repatriating the remains of Indigenous children who died at residential schools.

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