OPB has been reporting on a federal boarding school for Native youth in Salem. Chemawa Indian School has drawn criticism for its treatment of both students and teachers, in stories from OPB’s Rob Manning and EarthFix reporter Tony Schick. Today Rob focuses on the veil of secrecy that surrounds the federal school. And Autumn rains beget washed away the smoke of the summer wildfires. But Jeff Mapes reports that Congress remains embroiled in a tall-stakes environmental debate over how to reduce the growing threat of catastrophic blazes in Western forests and rangelands.
Source: thetakeaway.org