The Wichita and Washoe have something in common besides being plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Stewart was modeled on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. “The United States, for ...

With this program, Native families researching ancestors who went to government boarding schools would have been able to easily access digitized copies of their relative’s school records, including ...

Mary Annette Pember’s mother attended an Indian residential school through the eighth grade. It forever changed her—and her children.

A decade in the making, the film will recount the story of schoolmates who endured horrific abuse at the Indian Mission School in South Dakota.

A sociologist says boarding schools where Tibetan children are taught in Mandarin replace their mindset with a “Chinese mindset.” ...

Passion flower, a plant scientifically identified as Passiflora incarnata, is commonly referred to as the "dream plant" because it is said to induce relaxation, which improves sleeping.

They were hunting for the remains of Indigenous children beneath a former Native American boarding school that represents a dark chapter in American history.

The Sisters of Providence ran a boarding school for Indigenous children in what was then North Yakima from 1889-96.

History Colorado is doing two things to get the bill moving: finding a leader to handle the research and forming a committee inclusive of survivors, to steer it.

The Post’s year-long investigation found that three times as many Native American students had died at boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 as the U.S. government had previously reported.

Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation The monument at a former boarding school site in Carlisle, Pa., commemorates tribes whose children ...

The U.S. government operated the boarding schools directly or paid Christian churches to run them. Historians and scholars have written about the history of Indian boarding schools for decades.