In February, my 6-year-old Waccamaw Siouan son was told that he must cut his long hair to continue attending a public charter ...

Teachers and administrators cut their hair, forbade them from speaking ... for the “sin” of the nation’s government-run boarding school system. But at least $1.6 million in federal funds ...

Teachers and administrators cut their hair, forbade them from speaking ... for the “sin” of the nation’s government-run boarding school system. But at least $1.6 million in federal funds ...

At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S ...

They were stripped of their traditional clothing, their hair was cut ... Americans who attended U.S. government-run boarding schools have been cut as part of the Trump administration’s efforts ...

approximately 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools, where their hair was cut and they were forbidden to speak their language. In the United States, a similar ...

President Biden on Monday formally designated the former site of a notorious boarding school for ... were forced to attend the schools, where their hair was cut and they were forbidden to speak ...

having their hair cut.” Between 1819 and 1969, the U.S. government operated hundreds of boarding schools nationwide. The state of Washington had 15, the most of the western states, according to ...

Calling the federal boarding school policies “a sin on our soul ... where staff took their traditional clothes, cut their hair and often abused them, psychologically, physically or sexually.

President Biden apologized Friday for Native American boarding ... taken to the schools were not allowed speak their language, dress in cultural clothing, or keep their hair long.

Native American children were separated from their families and forced to cut their hair, adopt Christianity and speak English at the boarding schools. Bettmann Archive / Getty Images Stephen Roe ...