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Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation

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President Joe Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation.

More than 10,000 children passed through Carlisle Indian Industrial School by the time it closed in 1918 .

Forced assimilation policies were meant to erase Native American traditions and “civilize" children.

An estimated 187 Native American and Alaska Native children died at the institution in Carlisle , Pennsylvania .