Lac du Flambeau remembers difficult history, looks ahead through boys dormitory project

LAC DU FLAMBEAU - The historic boys dormitory building in Lac du Flambeau now looks like a new, well maintained place.

But the building's past holds decades of memories, some of them painful.

In the early 1900s, the U.S. Government used boarding schools like the one in Lac du Flambeau to try and mold native children to white culture.

Full story: WJFW

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