Indian boarding schools

The Interior Department's unprecedented review found that nearly 1,000 children died at hundreds of institutions created for "forced assimilation."

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is invoking a federal law to protect Native American graves and remains to sue the U.S. Army.

The Department of the Interior will soon release its historic final report on the devastation caused by U.S.-backed Indian boarding schools.

Indigenous communities in three states are mourning the discovery of human remains this week, many of them children at boarding schools.

A long-awaited online archive, put together by Native researchers, may help boarding school survivors find answers.

A state senator with firsthand experience in American Indian boarding schools has introduced a joint resolution calling on the state legislature to recognize the history of these institutions and the trauma they caused generations of Indigenous people. 

Researchers in Minnesota are collaborating on a survey of Indigenous survivors of family separation to document the abuse and participants' ways of coping.

In Canada, a federal court judged approved a class-action lawsuit encompassing Indigenous people forcibly sent to Indian boarding schools from 1992 to 2020, and their descendants.