The history of Native American boarding schools in the United States, including Wisconsin, has attracted new attention after hundreds of unm arked graves were discovered in Canada on the sites of ...

Sioux boys arrive at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, October 5, 1879. Staff Writer Last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a more than 100-page report on the federal Indigenous ...

When the U.S. federal government began its Indian Boarding School Initiative in the mid-19th century, the goal was clear: to erase Indigenous cultures through a process of forced assimilation. Now, ...

In the U.S. and all over the world, residential schools, or Indian boarding schools, forcibly fractured Indigenous cultures. The implication that these institutions were just “schools” does little to ...

A dozen Native American boarding schools in Kansas supported the federal government's mission of forced cultural assimilation as part of a tribal land grab, a new report states. The boarding schools, ...

In February 1874, one of the state’s first government-funded Native American boarding schools opened on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Southern Oregon. It operated as part of a larger federal ...