Q&A: Why US advocates want more power to probe Indigenous boarding schools

History professor Larry Larrichio holds a 19th-century photograph of the children at an Indigenous boarding school in Santa Fe, New Mexico [File: Susan Montoya Bryan/AP Photo]

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For years, advocates in the United States have been pushing for a fuller accounting of the legacy of Indigenous boarding schools.