Indian boarding schools

Indigenous archivists are grappling with a federal funding cut that targeted groups preserving the history of Indian boarding schools.

Researchers used ground-penetrating radar , near-infrared photography and drones to search for remains of Native children who attended boarding schools.

By Nancy Marie Spears

By Nancy Marie Spears

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 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.