This fall, as I’ve introduced myself to college students during lectures, I begin by saying, “I’m here because my grandmother ...

Dewey Schanandore is one of thousands of Indigenous people who attended a residential school in the United States. He shares ...

“The original intent of this [school] was to destroy our culture,” says Stacey Montooth, executive director of the Nevada Department of Native American Affairs and citizen of the Walker River Paiute ...

CARLISLE, Pa. — The old photos show young faces; all of them are Native American children. They are the children of Carlisle. “They would cut their hair immediately,” said Susan Rose, a sociology ...

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has announced the 16th stop of its Oral History Project, set ...

The investigation uncovered generations of trauma. It identified the deaths of at least 973 Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children who attended the boarding schools. In total, ...

In a powerful act of healing and reclamation, Dickinson College will dedicate the Jim Thorpe Center for the Futures of Native Peoples near the site of the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School ...

The lawsuit filed by the Wichita and Washoe tribes demands an accounting of an estimated $23.3 billion in misappropriated funds.

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 ...