Native American children have attended at least 523 Indigenous boarding schools since the 19th century, including hundreds that were run by the federal government to assimilate children into White ...

Sociologist Andrew Woolford argues that scholars need to start calling what happened at Indian boarding schools in the 19th and 20th century “genocide” because of the “sheer destructiveness ...

October 10th, 2022, is National Indigenous Peoples Day. Creative Director of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Kenrick Escalanti discuss the history of mistreatment of ...

In both the United States and Canada, reverberations of this 19th and 20th century tragedy are still being felt. Apologies and investigative reports have proliferated.

For more than 150 years, spurred by federal assimilation policies beginning in the early 19th century, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were sent to boarding schools across the ...

Sociologist Andrew Woolford argues that scholars need to start calling what happened at Indian boarding schools in the 19th and 20th century “genocide” because of the “sheer destructiveness ...

Hochul is picking up where former President Joe Biden left off, when shortly before exiting office, he apologized for Indian ...

More than 500 federally funded Indian boarding schools operated in the U.S. throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, many run by religious denominations that contracted with the government, the ...

More than 18,000 children were sent to boarding schools hundreds or thousands of ... than a century, ... to schools as far as 2,000 miles from their homelands in the late 19th and early 20th ...

Over a period of nine years in the 1930s and 1940s, Indian people paid $30.4 million (adjusted for inflation) for boarding school tuition. “In effect, we were paying for our own forced assimilation,” ...

Native American children have attended at least 523 Indigenous boarding schools since the 19th century, including hundreds that were run by the federal government to assimilate children into White ...