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The search for graves of Native American boarding school children


U.S. identifies Native American boarding schools and burial sites

A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has ...

Search for children's remains resumes at former Native American ...

Archeologists resumed digging Tuesday at the remote site of a former Native American boarding school in central Nebraska, searching for the remains of children ...

The remains of five Native American children who died at an ... - CNN

The remains of five children who died at a Pennsylvania boarding school for Native Americans are going to be exhumed and returned to their families.

Dozens of Burial Sites at U.S. Indian Schools Investigated

A new report from the U.S. Department of the Interior reveals a staggering number of atrocities committed against indigenous children while ...

Burial Sites Found at 53 Native American Boarding Schools, U.S. ...

A US government investigation into the dark history of Native American boarding schools has found marked or unmarked burial sites at 53 of them.

Burial sites found at 53 Native American boarding schools, U.S. ...

A US government investigation into the dark history of Native American boarding schools has found marked or unmarked burial sites at 53 of them.

Native American leaders visit site of archeological dig to ... - AP News

Relatives have been observing as archeologists dig for students' remains at the site of a former Native American boarding school in central ...

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 ...

Department of the Interior Releases Investigative Report, Outlines ...

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland today released Volume 1 of the investigative ...

American and Canadian Indigenous Boarding Schools and Mass ...

More than 150,000 Indigenous children in Canada and at least 60,000 children in the United States were forcibly taken from their families and moved to ...

Missing children, unmarked graves, unanswered questions - KUOW

The report lists 417 schools across 37 states and U.S. territories, including 17 boarding school sites in Washington state. It confirms that ...

Archeologists search for child graves at former Native American ...

(11 Jul 2023) Archeologists in Nebraska are searching for a lost cemetery near the former Genoa Indian Industrial School, which may contain ...

US identifies more than 50 Native American boarding school burial ...

First-of-its-kind study establishes 408 federal schools as officials say number of children who died could be in the tens of thousands.

Yakama Nation descendants search for unmarked graves at former ...

Tribe members say they want to honor their ancestors and give them peace and closure by unearthing the hidden history of atrocities at Fort Simcoe Indian ...

U.S. apologizes for federal Indian boarding schools, a key moment ...

US President Joe Biden made a diplomatic visit to Gila River Indian Community to issue an apology from the United States to all Indigenous Americans.

US gov't: At least 53 burial sites at Indigenous boarding schools

A US government investigation has found at least 53 separate burial sites at federal Native American boarding schools, and officials expect to find more.

Canadian Indian residential school gravesites - Wikipedia

The Canadian Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous children directed and funded by the Department of Indian ...

Canada's unmarked graves: How residential schools carried out ...

Archeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at a residential school in Canada, bringing new attention to one of the ...

At least 973 Native American children died at U.S.-run boarding ...

The second half of an investigative report was released Tuesday as part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative led by the ...

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, ...