Mark Scolforo Associated Press July 15, 2021 The disinterred remains of nine Native American children who died more than a century ago while attending a government-run school in Pennsylvania were headed home to Rosebud Sioux tribal lands in South Dakota on Wednesday...
NOELLE E. C. EVANS July 11, 2021 The United States is about to undertake a national investigation into hundreds of American Indian boarding schools that from the 1800s through the 20th century served to “kill the Indian to save the man,” according to one...
June 22, 2021 Outlines Path Forward on Troubled Legacy of Federal Boarding School Policies in Remarks to National Congress of American Indians WASHINGTON — In remarks to the National Congress of American Indians 2021 Mid Year Conference today, Secretary of the...
Evie Blad October 1, 2020 For about 100 years, the U.S. government supported a system of boarding schools where more than 100,000 American Indian and Alaska Native children were stripped of their culture, their languages, and their religions and forced to assimilate...
School opening during pandemic considered a confusing, potentially deadly challenge for reservation residents. Mary Annette Pember, Indian Country TodayAugust 18, 2020 11:56 a.m. WASHINGTON — Tara Sweeney, assistant secretary – Indian Affairs for the U.S. Department...
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) announced the Heard Museum is a 2020 recipient of an Award of Excellence for its exhibition Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories. The AASLH Leadership in History Awards Program, now in its...
