Confronting the Native American Boarding School History

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Confronting the Tragic Legacy of Forced Boarding

This report documents what many Indigenous families have known for generations—that the explicit goal of federal Indian boarding school program ...

Forced Into Federal Boarding Schools as Children, Native ...

Native Americans demand accountability for a federal policy that aimed to erase Indigenous culture. Native American communities are confronting ...

'Kill the Indian, Save the Man': The U.S. Wrestles With Its Role in ...

30, on what some Indigenous communities and their supporters are calling the National Day of Remembrance for U.S. Indian Boarding Schools, or ...

Confronting the Painful History of Native American Boarding Schools

When news broke of the 215 bodies of Native American children found on the grounds of a former Canadian residential boarding school, ...

Indigenous Peoples Day: Celebrating Heritage, Confronting History

As we celebrate the resilience and vibrancy of Native peoples, we mourn the thousands of Native children who were abused and murdered at federally-run boarding ...

Native American Boarding Schools Took Children's Culture, and ...

New research reveals the vast scope of the Native American boarding school system, which for more than a century removed Native children ...

Tribes Confront Painful Legacy Of Indian Boarding Schools - OSPI

Efforts range from the national Boarding School Healing Project to a $3 million health study by the University of Washington and the Tulalip ...

A former Native American boarding school reckons with its dark past

PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. – Inching forward on her knees, Marsha Small scraped away at the earthen floor in search of a bone, a tooth, ...

Chapter 3: Boarding Schools - Native Words, Native Warriors

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, many American Indian children attended government- or church-operated boarding schools.

The Reckoning: Native American Boarding Schools' Painful History ...

NBC News' Cynthia McFadden reports on the dark history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S. An effort is ongoing to use ...

How Boarding Schools Tried to 'Kill the Indian' Through Assimilation

Native American tribes are still seeking the return of their children.

Truth Matters: Facing the History of Native American Boarding Schools

When researchers uncovered the unmarked mass graves of more than 1,000 Indigenous children at former residential schools in Canada earlier ...

Indian Boarding Schools « World Without Genocide

The goal of the boarding schools was to “civilize” Native children by erasing their Indian identity, which was considered “savagery,” and to assimilate them ...

Big Idea: Confronting the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

When Haskell Institute opened in 1884, it was known as the Indian Industrial Training School at Lawrence and was among the first of the U.S. ...

American Indian boarding school | Definition, Map, Facts, & History

American Indian boarding schools were a system of boarding schools created for Native—that is, American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native ...

Deb Haaland Confronts the History of the Federal Agency She Leads

As the first Native American Cabinet member, the Secretary of the Interior has made it part of her job to address the travesties of the past ...

U.S. confronts 'cultural genocide' in Native American boarding ...

A first-of-its-kind U.S. government investigation is helping to reveal the deadly and commonplace brutality of the former Native American ...

Lost Lives, Lost Culture: The Forgotten History of Indigenous ...

Thousands of Native American children attended U.S. boarding schools designed to “civilize the savage.” Many died.

Why we must confront the history of U.S. Native boarding schools if ...

When Patricia Whitefoot learned about the remains of 215 children found in a mass grave at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British ...