Originally called the Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children and later shortened to the Thomas Indian School, the institution was on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation of ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has apologized for New York’s role in abuses at Native American boarding schools, calling them “historical atrocities.” ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York visited Seneca land on Tuesday to apologize for the state’s operation of a boarding school that ...

New York’s governor visited the Seneca Nation on Tuesday and formally apologized for “atrocities” she says were committed at a state boarding school that separated Native American students from their ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul apologized to the Seneca Nation of Indians for the state's role in Thomas Indian School in Irving, where ...

The boarding residential school was part of the United States policy of forced assimilation for Native youth, to strip them ...

Saying sorry can never make up for the horrific acts committed against Native American children at boarding schools across ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul met with Seneca Nation representatives to deliver a formal apology for past mistreatment of Native children at a state-run school.

Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a formal apology Tuesday for the state’s role in a Chautauqua County boarding school that separated Native American students from their families with the goal of assimilating ...

Hochul is expected to formally apologize to the Seneca Nation, as well as former students and for their descendants of trauma experienced at the Thomas Indian School. The news of an apology to be ...

The Democrat, speaking on the grounds of the former Thomas Indian School on Seneca Nation land, said students were subjected to “unimaginable physical, emotional and sexual assaults” during ...