Sifting through thousands of boarding school records at the National Archives in Seattle, Beck’s colleagues found a letter, dated Nov. 10, 1954, from Wall’s father, Beck’s great-grandfather.

Words: Alix Bateman. Watching Brian and Melvyn – two brothers in their 60s – competing in Race Across the World, I was struck by the similarities between their childhood experiences and mine and my ...

Dharamshala (Himachal Pradesh): US-based Tibet Action Group has come up with a new report that reveals that China is using colonial boarding schools for political assimilation and not for ...

One day in early fall 1930, a black car arrived at a small wood-frame house in Odanah, Wisconsin, to whisk 5-year-old Bernice Rabideaux and her four siblings away to St. Mary’s Catholic Indian ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - Carolyn Fiscus knows where her aunt, Mildred Lowe, spent her final days. She knows the 12-year-old Winnebago girl became gravely ill in the winter of 1930 at ...

Deciding to investigate what was happening at schools across Tibet, Gyal Lo visited over 50 kindergarten boarding schools for Tibetan children between 2017 and 2020.

At least 76 Native American children died at Colorado boarding schools designed to strip them of their Indigenous language, culture and heritage, according to a new investigation recently ...

The Sisters of Providence ran a boarding school for Indigenous children in what was then North Yakima from 1889-96.

The monument will be located on about 25 acres of the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School campus near Harrisburg, Pa. It was one of the first and largest of the federal boarding schools.

President Joe Biden designated a national monument at a former Native American boarding school in Pennsylvania on Monday to honor the resilience of Indigenous tribes whose children were forced to ...

The monument will be located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on the campus of a former flagship facility for reeducating tribal children. The U.S. once had more than 400 federal Indian boarding schools ...

The boarding school system was used as a “weapon” not only to break the children’s bonds with their families and culture but to take Indigenous peoples’ land, ...