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Indykids featured on NPR!

NPR’s sports show, Only A Game featured our story on 73-year-old marathon runner, Jillian Lazaridis. For this piece Indykids teamed up with The Grandparents StoryLab – a new intergenerational storytelling project that connects New York City’s youngest and oldest generations through podcasts and art. Listen to the story here, and to see the kids drawings illustrating Jillian’s story, go toThe Grandparents StoryLab website. Special thanks …

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Indigenous Boarding Schools Separated Native American Children from Their Families and Forced Them to Assimilate

By Clare Amann, age 13   In 1945, at the age of 6, Bill Wright, a Patwin Indian, was sent to Stewart Indian School in Nevada. He was given a name that was different from the one chosen for him at birth and forced to assimilate to the American school system and lifestyle. He told …

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