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More than 900 Native American children died in federally operated boarding schools over a nearly 100-year period, the federal government said Tuesday. © Eric Risberg ...
More than 900 Native American children died while being forced to attend Indian boarding schools, according to a new federal report that urges the U.S. government to formally apologize for the ...
WASHINGTON — Nearly 1,000 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children, including 60 from the Pacific Northwest, died while attending boarding schools set up by the U.S ...
For more than a century, Native children as young as 4 were removed from their homes and sent to government- or religious-run boarding schools designed to extinguish their languages, cultures and ...
The federal government today expanded the number of children known to have died in the repressive boarding school system that, for more than a century, pulled Native American children from their ...
Two tribal nations are suing the U.S. government for misusing trust funds meant for Native children's education to finance abusive boarding schools. The lawsuit demands an accounting of an ...
His visit to Arizona's Gila River Indian Community was his first as president. President Joe Bidenin Arizona on Friday apologized to Native Americans for the federal government forcing their ...