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Once a federal boarding school, local tribes now set the curriculum at the Santa Fe Indian School

For more than a century, federal boarding schools worked to forcibly assimilate Native American children into white culture. We visit one school that has rewritten its legacy.

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Sequoia Carrillo is an assistant editor for NPR's Education Team. Along with writing, producing, and reporting for the team, she manages the Student Podcast Challenge.