For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United States government and Christian denominations operated boarding schools ...
The latest round of exhumations of Native American students from a cemetery at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School ...
Officials are calling the move the first known return of Catholic-owned land to an Indigenous tribe as an act of reparations ...
CARLISLE, Pa. — The old photos show young faces; all of them are Native American children. They are the children of Carlisle. “They would cut their hair immediately,” said Susan Rose, a sociology ...
“The original intent of this [school] was to destroy our culture,” says Stacey Montooth, executive director of the Nevada Department of Native American Affairs and citizen of the Walker River Paiute ...
The exhumation of 17 students from Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian Industrial School has renewed attention on the US boarding school system, where Indigenous children were forcibly assimilated. Over ...
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition will conduct interviews in New Mexico this month, the 16th ...
This fall, as I’ve introduced myself to college students during lectures, I begin by saying, “I’m here because my grandmother ...
Since 2017, the bodies of 58 students have been repatriated from a Pennsylvania cemetery. The students attended Carlisle ...