Two years later, Spott was dead. Official records indicate he fell victim to the “white plague” of tuberculosis that was rampant at Indian boarding schools. He was buried in the school’s cemetery, ...

A headstone at the cemetery of the U.S. Army's Carlisle Barracks in Carlisle ... A new book examines the impact of such Indian boarding schools, which numbered about 500 in the 19th and 20th centuries ...

Few who visit this cemetery know the boy buried here ... Twenty-three federally funded Indian boarding schools around the country were modeled after Carlisle. Children learned academics and ...

Survivors of the Indian boarding schools and their descendants ... At least 160 children died while there and are buried in the school’s cemetery. Carlisle’s founder, Richard Henry Pratt ...

The Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument ... children died of disease and malnutrition at the schools. A cemetery at the site of the Carlisle school, now home to the U.S ...

Last month, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office returned what it said were “ancient” human remains that had been initially unearthed in 2010. Their return highlights the ongoing struggle and nuance of ...

The Squaxin Island Tribe’s health clinic is named after Sally Brownfield’s late mother, who spent decades working to obtain ...

The lawsuit filed by the Wichita and Washoe tribes demands an accounting of an estimated $23.3 billion in misappropriated ...

Rapid City, South Dakota, unveiled a powerful new memorial dedicated to the children who suffered and died at the Rapid City ...

Tribal leaders say the funding cuts have serious implications for boarding school survivors, their families and the general ...