The oral history project was born out of the department's 2021 Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a first step of the ...

Many of the schools were government-funded and based off the model at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, one of the largest boarding schools in the country. Its founder, Richard H. Pratt, famously ...

The Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is visiting Milwaukee to collect oral histories of the states boarding ...

Native American boarding school funding under scrutiny in lawsuit The lawsuit filed by the Wichita and Washoe tribes demands an accounting of an estimated $23.3 billion in misappropriated funds.

The loss of a Jordan Weber mural at Jefferson Elementary School started a districtwide campaign to document Des Moines Public ...

More than 100 years after their service, a dozen Oklahomans who fought in WWI are eligible for the Valor Medals Review.

Trump’s order expanding school choice to Indian Country met resistance from parents and educators who worried it would ...

Slug: BC-CNS-Boarding School Histories,1640 words. 9 photos, audio available (thumbnails, captions below) By Ellie Willard Cronkite News PHOENIX – A national oral history project aims to ...

The Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, established in 1884 near Newkirk, Oklahoma, was one of the first off-reservation boarding schools in the United States. Operating until 1980, it aimed to ...

Richard Henry Pratt and his Carlile Indian Industrial School set the standard for Indian assimilation in America and Canada. Causing ever-lasting damage to the Native American communities today.

About 75,000 pages of Indian boarding school records sit in online storage systems that “can’t be touched until we get new funding.” ...

Sifting through thousands of boarding school records at the National Archives in Seattle, Beck’s colleagues found a letter, dated Nov. 10, 1954, from Wall’s father, Beck’s great-grandfather.