Remains of missing Native American children continue to be identified

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The remains of dozens of missing Native American children have been identified in unmarked mass graves near the old grounds of the Rapid City Indian School, closed in 1933. 

For decades, elders in the community spoke about terrible practices and buried truths, but only recently those stories have been unearthed, another testament of the fraught history of racial relations between colonizers and the First Nations in North America.