'We survived, we are resilient': Remembering U.S. Indian boarding schools
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"When I went to boarding school, I was 7," said Ramona Klein, speaking to a group clad in orange shirts at a vigil earlier this month in Washington, D.C. "My parents didn't see me — other than a little while during the summer — for four years. Some parents didn't see their children for 12 years."
Klein attended the Fort Totten Indian Industrial School in North Dakota from 1954 to 1958.
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