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The Wider Image: Native American survivors of alleged boarding school sex abuse want justice
The United States in May acknowledged the damage inflicted on generations of children at federal Indian boarding schools, a system built to assimilate indigenous kids into white society by cutting them off from their parents and tribes. Geraldine Charbonneau Dubourt (not pictured), a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, welcomed that admission, part of a report released by the Department of the Interior. But what she really wants is justice.The septuagenarian has waged a so-far fruitless effort to seek restitution for the rapes and other abuses she says she, her eight sisters and scores of other Native American children endured for years at the former St. Paul's Indian Mission School in Marty, South Dakota, U.S. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare SEARCH "O'HARE YANKTON" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES TEMPLATE OUT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY