The Bureau of Indian Education has a long and troubled history educating about 46,000 Native American students around the country.

A new investigation by the Arizona Republic and ProPublica shows its more than 180 schools have chronically failed to meet benchmarks set by the federal government that every other public school in the country is held to.

The Show spoke with the Republic’s Alden Woods more about it — and they began with one Navajo woman’s story.

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