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State officials remain hopeful in ongoing search as Interior Department reviews Biden-era initiative examining history of U.S ...
Nearly three years ago, the Kansas Historical Society planned to search the grounds of Johnson County’s Shawnee Indian ...
Officials have yet to find the graves of children who died at a federal Indian boarding school in Nebraska. But they’re not ...
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, known as NABS, is losing critical grant funding from the ...
The funding, which supported work dealing with one of the darkest chapters in American history, is being reallocated in ...
“The federal Indian boarding school policy and the pain it has caused ... carved into the century-old wood. “(Finding the graves) also is a tribute to honor those who suffered at the hands ...
Heather Shotton, an enrolled citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and a descendant of the Kiowa and Cheyenne tribes, ...
“If that assumption is out there, let’s find out because I think if we were to find unmarked graves ... Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway was established as a boarding school by the Rev ...
In 2021, Shawnee Tribe Chief Ben Barnes called for a federal investigation of all residential Native American boarding schools, including Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway, to uncover any children ...