Michigan taxpayers spent $1.1 million on a study of the history of abuse in Native American board schools that was ultimately shelved.

President Joe Biden made history on the Gila River Indian Reservation last October with the first-ever formal apology from the U.S. government for the federal Indian boarding school system, where tens ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 1,000 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children, including 60 from the Pacific Northwest, died while attending boarding schools set up by the U.S. government for ...

The trauma created by Native American boarding schools has affected generations of people and this week, the National Native ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Bryan Newland, assistant secretary-Indian Affairs, at a Road to Healing event in Anchorage, ...

The Department of Interior made a stop in New Mexico to meet with survivors of the federal Indian boarding school system. Stories of pain and healing filled the ballroom Sunday morning at the Isleta ...

Across the U.S., there were 526 boarding schools, with almost 50 located in New Mexico ...

More than 18,000 children were shipped off to faraway schools in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Nearly 900 known deaths occurred in the 417 federal-run institutions, along with uncounted cases of ...

The federal government today expanded the number of children known to have died in the repressive boarding school system that, for more than a century, pulled Native American children from their homes ...

WASHINGTON – Nearly 1,000 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died while attending boarding schools that were set up by the U.S. government for the purpose of erasing their ...

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images / Getty Images North America The federal government today expanded the number of children known to have died in the repressive boarding school system that, for more than a ...