President Joe Biden formally apologized Friday for the country’s role in forcing generations of Native children into the government’s abusive boarding school system that ripped families apart ...

The advancements made in the United States in recent years to officially face up to its ugly Indian boarding school history are being walked back under President Donald Trump. The Trump ...

In November 2000, the Heard Museum in Phoenix opened a groundbreaking exhibition, “Remembering our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience.” The show, so popular that an updated ...

In an undated photo, children are seen in the sewing department at Cut Bank Boarding School in Montana. The school was also known as the Blackfeet Agency Boarding and Day School. (Sherburne ...

The apology is a first. No other sitting U.S. president has publicly apologized for the federal boarding school policies that began as early as 1819 and lasted until at least the 1960s.

But coming on the heels of a major federal boarding school investigation by the previous administration and an apology by then-President Joe Biden, they illustrate a seismic shift. “If we’re ...

“From being a first-generation college student and a descendant of boarding school survivors to my own daughters getting to see their mom as a college president and what it will mean for my own ...

Indian boarding schools were once used to suppress Indigenous culture in the U.S. But one Utah school encouraged students to express tribal identity, and those preserved works are now on display.