Plus, a data hack of the Mexican military gives new insights into the Ayotzinapa case.

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** THE WEEKLY REVEAL
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Saturday, March 18, 2023

Hello! In this issue:
* The painful legacy of U.S. Indian boarding schools ([link removed]) .

* Hacked documents from the Mexican military shed new light on the Ayotzinapa case.


** THIS WEEK’S PODCAST
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** Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools, Part 1
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This week on Reveal ([link removed]) , we’re bringing back a two-part investigation with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today) about boarding schools for Native children and the United States’ effort to come to terms with an educational system that was designed to “kill the Indian and save the man.”

ICT reporter Mary Annette Pember has been reporting on these boarding schools for more than 20 years. Much of her work focuses on the role the Catholic Church played in shaping federal policy toward Native people. The church was given more than 10,000 acres of tribal land by the federal government, as well as access to money that had been given to tribes through treaties with the U.S. government to build and operate the schools.

In part one ([link removed]) of this investigation, Pember takes us to the Catholic-run Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, which is now trying to bring truth and healing to its community despite the open wound from the school’s history.
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** DIG DEEPER
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📝 Buried Secrets: Red Cloud takes the lead in uncovering boarding school past. Read ([link removed]) .

📝 Red Cloud Indian School will dig for graves. Read ([link removed]) .

📝 The Catholic Church siphoned away $30M paid to Native people for stolen land. Read ([link removed]) .

📝 Deaths at Chemawa. Read ([link removed]) .

📝 ‘Sometimes we hear the voices of children playing there.’ Read ([link removed]) .


** FEATURED STORY
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** DeSantis’ Election Police Have Largely Flopped in Florida Voter Prosecutions. A New Law Aims to Change That.
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A new analysis by Reveal shows the push to target election activity in state legislatures nationwide has only intensified in the four months since the 2022 midterm elections. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely Republican primary candidate in the 2024 presidential race, has taken the voter fraud myth and turned it into law enforcement policy. Read ([link removed]) .


** HEADLINES
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** A Reveal Take on the News: Ayotzinapa Edition
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** National Security Archive senior analyst Kate Doyle appears in a Democracy Now! interview. Credit: Democracy Now! screenshot
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In September, an anonymous collective of hackers known as Guacamaya released ([link removed]) six terabytes of information, or about 4 million documents, from the Mexican Defense Ministry. The National Security Archive, our partner in the After Ayotzinapa ([link removed]) series, has spent months looking through the documents for details about the kidnapping case.

This month, the archive posted 20 documents that reveal new insight into the relationship between the Mexican military and the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College.

Years before the 2014 attack on 43 students from the college, the Mexican military was surveilling the school and considered its students to be subversives.

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“The military records also reveal that Mexico’s National Defense Ministry worked to shield the institution from civilian scrutiny during the investigation into the disappearance of the 43 students; that military intelligence routinely lumped together dangerous drug traffickers and parents of the missing students in the same reports on ‘conflict’ in Mexico; and that Mexico's Defense Secretary oversaw a propaganda campaign to discredit the parents, their lawyers, and a group of experts assigned to assist in the case by a United Nations commission.”

Kate Doyle, a senior analyst with the archive and one of the lead reporters in the After Ayotzinapa series, appeared on Democracy Now! this week to give more insight into how the documents shed a new light on the Ayotzinapa case. Watch the full interview ([link removed]) .


** In Case You Missed It
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This issue of The Weekly Reveal was written by Kassie Navarro, edited by Kate Howard and copy edited by Nikki Frick. If you enjoyed this issue, forward it to a friend ([link removed]) . Have some thoughts? Drop us a line (mailto:[email protected]) with feedback or ideas!

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