U.S. to review dark history of Indigenous boarding schools
By AP The federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and work to “uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences” of the institutions, which over the decades forced hundreds of thousands of children from their families and communities, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced […]
Education on history of Indian boarding schools gets a boost
By Dan Gunderson/MPR A national organization based in Minnesota is kicking off a new 10-year plan to bring attention to a dark chapter in U.S. history – and it’s just gotten the funding to put the plan into action. Between 1869 and the 1960s, it’s estimated hundreds of thousands of Native American children across the […]