NEW YORK, July 19 (Xinhua) -- "Horrific things" happened to Native American children at boarding schools run by the U.S. government, according to a report published by The New York Times on Monday.
Hundreds of thousands of Native Americans children were housed and educated in a network of institutions, created to "civilize the savage," in the century and a half that the U.S. government ran boarding schools for them, the report read.
"There were horrific things that happened at boarding schools," Tom Stritikus, the president of Fort Lewis College, was quoted in the report as saying. "It's important that we daylight that."
Many of the deaths of former students have been recorded in federal archives and newspaper death notices, the report said, adding that the search for bodies of other students is already underway at two former schools in the western state of Colorado. Enditem
