Beginning in 1819 and continuing through at least 1969, the U.S. pursued policy establishing and supporting Indian boarding schools that sought the forced assimilation of American Indian ...

In November 2000, the Heard Museum in Phoenix opened a groundbreaking exhibition, “Remembering our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience.” The show, so popular that an updated ...

A local tribal member was sent to an Indian Boarding School when he was just six years old. Now he is speaking out about a painful experience that he didn’t talk about for decades. Matthew War ...

President Joe Biden’s historic apology Friday for the abuses at Indian boarding schools is turning national attention to schools such as Phoenix Indian School. Indigenous communities today are ...

President Biden on Monday announced a new national monument to tell the story of the more than 400 boarding schools where tens of thousands of American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian ...

This park site tells the story of traumatic family separation and abuse at Native American boarding schools across the country. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the first off-reservation ...

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Burning sage, or smudge, in a cleansing ritual at the Denver Indian Family Resource Center, Oct. 30, 2024. CPR News sat down with three people who endured boarding ...

It’s one of more than 400 Indian boarding schools across the country that were part of a program designed by the federal government to “kill the Indian and save the man”—those were the ...

I’m sure it will be a big deal to all of Indian Country.” Her grandparents were forced to attend a boarding school. “We know that the federal government failed,” she added Friday.

In November 2000, the Heard Museum in Phoenix opened a groundbreaking exhibition, “Remembering our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience.” The show, so popular that an updated ...