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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a July 14, 2021, ceremony at the U.S. Army's Carlisle Barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. A report from the U.S. Department of the Interior, led by the first-ever Native American cabinet secretary, Haaland, due to be released in April 2022, will focus on the loss of life and the enduring traumas of the U.S. boarding school system, in which Native Americans were taken to hundreds of government- and church-run facilities from the 19th to mid-20th centuries. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)