For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the United States government and Christian denominations operated boarding schools ...

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

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

Guest: Mary Annette Pember is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe. She is currently national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today. She is the recipient of several ...

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the first federally funded, off-reservation boarding school for Indigenous children in the United States. From 1879-1918, approximately 7,800 students were ...

To mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we sit down with the award-winning Indigenous writer, journalist and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat, member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and a descendant of the ...

A new lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Honolulu seeks to overturn Kamehameha Schools’ admissions policy that gives preference to Native Hawaiians. The suit filed by Students for Fair Admissions — ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Survivors of Indian Boarding schools have been dealing with trauma that can be traced back to the 19th century. Sunday, the National Native American Boarding School Healing ...