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“We’re hoping that we’re able to bring at least some form of healing to a wound that a lot of people didn’t know was there,” Jacuk said. “But it’s also that acknowledgement of the wound, not only for our own communities, but really for Alaska in general, that this is a part of our history.”
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About 30 Alaska Native youths buried at boarding schools decades ago are now returning home
Work led by the Alaska Native Heritage Center resulted in the remains of three Indigenous students from Alaska being repatriated from the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School. More will follow.