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 ...

Confronting the Legacy of Native American Boarding Schools

Last February, Syracuse University hosted a screening of the 2007 film UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide and a public ...

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 ...

Tribes confront painful legacy of Indian boarding schools

Genevieve Williams lies in failing health in her daughter's small house on the Tulalip Reservation, haunted by powerful memories.

Confronting the dark legacy of American Indian boarding schools

Derrick Belgarde reflects on his experience with homelessness. He is now the program manager of the Chief Seattle Club, which he says played ...

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 ...

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland faces the tragic legacy of federal ...

One of Haaland's first major actions after assuming leadership of the department in early 2021, was to launch the Federal Indian Boarding School ...

Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report Vol. II

Confirming that at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children died while attending Federal Indian boarding schools;.

Reckoning with the Devastating Legacy of Federal Indian Boarding ...

For more than 150 years, federally funded school policies separated Indigenous families and used brutal methods to try to assimilate Native children into white ...

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 ...

Interior Department to Investigate Abuse of Indigenous Children at ...

The Department of the Interior plans to investigate hundreds of boarding school sites across the US, where Native children were forced to go in the 19th and 20 ...

Indian Country Responds to President Biden's Historic Apology

Last Friday, President Joe Biden issued a historic apology for federal Indian boarding school policy that forcibly stripped Native children ...

LISTEN: Confronting the legacy of boarding schools in Alaska

The recent discovery of the remains of more than 200 Indigenous children at a residential school in Canada has prompted discussion, ...

Government Tallies Harms of Indian Boarding Schools - The Imprint

The Interior Department's review found that nearly 1000 children died at hundreds of institutions created for "forced assimilation."

Transcript: Forced into Federal Boarding Schools as Children ...

DENISE LAJIMODIERE (TURTLE MOUNTAIN BAND OF OJIBWE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, 2006-2018): There was 23 kids that died ...

WATCH LIVE: Sec. Haaland addresses history of forced assimilation ...

Footage courtesy: National Congress of American Indians Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more ...

Comment: Tragedy of Indian boarding schools must be faced

The horrifying news that the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children were found at former residential schools is another painful episode in a national ...

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, ...

Federal leaders face Indigenous schools' tragic past for first-of-its ...

Denise Lajimodiere has studied Native American boarding schools and documented the experiences of Indigenous students for years. Those students ...