Deb Haaland

By Nancy Marie Spears

In October, outgoing President Joe Biden issued a formal apology for the centuries that the U.S. government forced Native American children to attending boarding schools.

President Biden apologized to survivors of Indian boarding schools, describing “one of the most horrific chapters in American history.” 

A national project documents the systemic abuse endured by generations of Indigenous people under the government’s boarding school programs.

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

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.

This year, The Imprint reported on developments specific to Indigenous child welfare, including a challenge at the Supreme Court of the Indian Child Welfare Act.

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