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Colorado’s Fort Lewis College — a former Indian boarding school — names its first Native American president
Heather Shotton, an enrolled citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and a descendant of the Kiowa and Cheyenne tribes, ...
NEH cuts $1.5 million from grants to research Indian boarding schools
The funding, which supported work dealing with one of the darkest chapters in American history, is being reallocated in ...
National Catholic Reporter1d
New Stations of the Cross focus on suffering of Native Americans, path to healing
This Lent, a new version of a Catholic devotion seeks to acknowledge the traumas experienced by Native people, including ...
Cincinnati1d
Taking a Lifetime to Write Her Mother’s Story
Mary Annette Pember’s recollection of her mother’s upbringing in an Indian boarding school ... about children who left for boarding school and never returned; many were buried on boarding school land ...
The Union6d
Indian Springs School Nevada County's newest Historical Landmark
The Nevada County Historical Landmarks Commission is pleased to announce that the Indian Springs School was designated as Nevada County Historical Landmark NEV 25-03 on April 8, 2025 by the ...
Star-Herald10d
At Nebraska's Native American boarding school, search for child graves and closure continues
Officials have yet to find the graves of children who died at a federal Indian boarding school in Nebraska. But they’re not ...
Lincoln Journal Star10d
A search for the dead and a journey toward closure at Nebraska’s Native American boarding school
Officials have yet to find the graves of children who died at a federal Indian boarding school in Nebraska. But they’re not ...
At Nebraska’s Native American boarding school, location of child graves and closure prove elusive
It’s a mystery Fiscus pondered as she sat in a folding chair beneath the sweltering sun in July 2023 and watched as a small ...
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Untangling Mark Carney's father's ties to Fort Smith, N.W.T., Indian day school
Posts circulating online have incorrectly called him an Indian residential school principal. While that's false, it's true that the Joseph Burr Tyrrell school was officially recognized under a ...
National Post15d
Nigel Biggar: Residential schools were no 'atrocity.' Just look at the evidence
Too many people know full well that the data is being misrepresented and yet have failed to offer any correction You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an ...
Charlotte Observer16d
NC bill would order end of ‘offensive American Indian mascots’ in public schools
After years of unsuccessfully persuading some North Carolina schools to drop their American Indian mascots, a state lawmaker is now trying to make the change through the legislative power of the ...
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Why British boarding schools dey ginger to open for Nigeria
For many years, many Nigerians wey fit afford am don send dia children to beta British boarding schools - but now some of those institutions dey set up campuses for di most populous nation for Africa.