boarding schools

President Biden recently apologized for the federally-run boarding school system, which sought to assimilate Native children into white culture and separated them from their languages and communities. But people on the Wind River Reservation say the apology needs follow-up.

More than 200 items recently made their way back to the Northern Arapaho Tribe. Toys, beaded moccasins and traditional dresses received a motorcycle and police escort on part of their journey from Casper to the Wind River Reservation for a homecoming celebration. They were held by the Episcopal Church for the past 80 years.

The remains of an Eastern Shoshone boy have been returned to the Wind River Reservation, after more than a hundred years at the Carlisle Indian School cemetery in Pennsylvania.

A new federal investigation has found nearly 1,000 Native American children died while attending boarding schools created to strip them of their culture. The report, commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, calls on the government to apologize.

The White Buffalo Recovery Center is a culturally-informed outpatient treatment center that supports Native community members who are recovering from addiction and substance abuse. This June, they’re launching a new version of Mending Broken Hearts, a bimonthly, three-day workshop that provides healing around grief, loss and intergenerational trauma. In the past, the program has been just for adults, but now the workshop is expanding to include the whole family.

For decades, Native Americans were sent off to boarding schools run by the federal government or religious groups. They were stripped of cultural ties and forced to assimilate into an American lifestyle.

A nonprofit has released a new interactive map that sheds more light on the history of boarding schools that traumatized Indigenous children in the U.S. and Canada for decades.

The remains of five Native American children who died at a notorious Indian boarding school more than a century ago will be returned to their living relatives.

After numerous requests by the Northern Arapaho tribe, the remains of children buried in a cemetery at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in…

As a child on Montana's Crow Reservation, Peggy White Well Known Buffalo was taken from her home, put on a bus (the first she had ever seen) and sent to a…