the United States government sent Native American children to remote boarding schools as part of a systematic effort to seize tribal lands and eradicate culture. Dozens of these schools were run ...

By 1900, 1 in 5 Native American school-age children were sent to a boarding school, sometimes thousands of miles from their ...

U.S. officials ordered Native American children to be removed from their homes and sent to remote boarding schools. As one of the first boarding school founders said, “Kill the Indian in him ...

At least 973 Native American children died in the boarding system ... after they became sick at school and were sent home, officials said. The schools, similar institutions and related ...

Officials have yet to find the graves of children who died at a federal Indian boarding school in Nebraska. But they’re not ...

Hundreds of children like Mildred were brought to the Genoa boarding school 110 miles ... In a statement sent to the Flatwater Free Press, the Bureau of Indian Affairs said Burgum, the new head ...

Ava Olson, a University of Wyoming student from Cheyenne, is the recipient of a UW American Heritage Center (AHC) ...

From 1819 until the 1970s, indigenous children were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to federal Indian boarding schools. The schools stripped them of their heritage and tried to ...

[AFP] The number of Native Americans who died in US boarding schools is at least triple ... in many cases, children's bodies were never sent home to their families or tribes." ...