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Trove of Native American boarding school records aims to aid healing
In a research room at the Pacific Alaska Region National Archives in Seattle, Denise Lajimodiere suddenly broke into sobs. Reviewing documents that illuminated her late father Leo's boarding school experience at Chemawa Indian Training School in Salem, …