Native American boarding schools left a legacy of trauma in Indigenous communities. Churches and the federal government used the schools to assimilate Native children, suppressing their language and ...

From 1819 through the 1970s, the U.S. government removed Native American children from their homes. Tens of thousands of kids, preschoolers to teenagers, from tribes across the country, grew up in ...

When Briana Walkup arrived at Ohio State, she hoped to find something she had never had growing up in rural northwest Ohio: a Native community. What she found instead was a sense of belonging that ...

Missionaries established the Georgia school before Cherokee people were forced on the Trail of Tears. Such schools now face renewed federal scrutiny. Moravian missionaries started a boarding school ...

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — The Carlisle Indian Industrial School had not yet held its first class when Matavito Horse and Leah Road Traveler were taken there in October 1879, drafted into the U.S.