Unmarked graves, lost family members, and a reckoning long overdue – it’s a story familiar to Indigenous peoples in both Canada and the United States, where residential schools for native children ripped apart tribal nations. The US boarding school system was even more extensive than Canada’s, but much less is known about it, and its history is often surrounded by a culture of silence. So what will it take for a reckoning in the US?

In this episode: 
Kavitha Chekuru (@KaviChek), producer for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines (@AJFaultLines)
Denise Lajimodiere (@DLajimodiere), author and academic 
Eleanor Hadden, descendant of boarding school students

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Unmarked graves, lost family members, and a reckoning long overdue &ndash; it&rsquo;s a story familiar to Indigenous peoples in both Canada and the United States, where residential schools for native children ripped apart tribal nations. The US boarding school system was even more extensive than Canada&rsquo;s, but much less is known about it, and its history is often surrounded by a culture of silence. So what will it take for a reckoning in the US?
In this episode:&nbsp;
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<li>Kavitha Chekuru (<a href="https://twitter.com/KaviChek">@KaviChek</a>), producer for Al Jazeera&rsquo;s Fault Lines (<a href="https://twitter.com/AJFaultLines">@AJFaultLines</a>)</li>
<li>Denise Lajimodiere (<a href="https://twitter.com/dlajimodiere">@DLajimodiere</a>), author and academic&nbsp;</li>
<li>Eleanor Hadden, descendant of boarding school students</li>
</ul>
Connect with The Take:&nbsp;
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The Take is a daily interview-driven international news podcast hosted by award-winning journalist Malika Bilal. Each episode focuses on conversations with journalists and people directly impacted by the news of the day, offering our listeners the context necessary to understand what's in the headlines.
With millions of global listens, it's clear the conversations we're having on The Take are worth hearing. And critics think so too. The show has won the Online Journalism Awards, the Signal Awards, Lovie Awards, and Anthem Awards, among others.

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