Native American boarding schools in the US, by the numbers

For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United States government and Christian denominations operated boarding schools ...
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Remains of 17 Native American students exhumed from boarding school cemetery in Pennsylvania

The remains of 17 Native American students have been exhumed from a former school near Harrisburg and returned to their ...

The remains and stories of Native American boarding school students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery

Since 2017, the bodies of 58 students have been repatriated from a Pennsylvania cemetery. The students attended Carlisle ...
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Remains of Native American students reclaimed

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School had not yet held its first class when Matavito Horse and Leah Road Traveler were taken ...

New Mexico Indian boarding school survivors invited to participate in oral history project

Charlee Brissette feels fortunate to have interviewed her mother. A member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Brissette is a boarding school descendant. Her mother attended a federal ...
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The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School had not yet held its first class when Matavito Horse and Leah Road Traveler were taken ...
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UIS ECCE event to focus on Native American boarding schools - Nov. 5

Dr. Farina King, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is the Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology and Culture and Associate Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her ...

The haunting legacy of native American boarding schools: Carlisle and the struggle for truth

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 ...