Native America Calling: Remembering those who stood up to boarding schools

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A Navajo family tells the story in Bad Indian: Hiding in Antelope Canyon, a new film about their relative Tadidinii, who was killed while refusing to return his daughter back to the boarding school from which she ran away.

The men who killed Tadidinii were acquitted. The family also gives tours of Antelope Canyon, where their relative hid out on the Arizona portion of the Navajo Nation.

Another Yerington Paiute boy repeatedly ran away and traveled the 50 miles back home until the boarding school administrators gave up. These are among the stories that descendants are uncovering about the dangers their relatives endured to resist forced attendance in boarding schools from the 1860s to the 1970s.

Join Native America Calling to hear some of the stories of danger, desperation, and courage.