Further Reading. Spivey, Ashley Atkins (Pamunkey). "Making Pottery and Constructing Community During the Brafferton Era." In Building the Brafferton : the Founding, Funding, and Legacy of America’s ...

Retropolis ‘12 years of hell’: Indian boarding school survivors share their stories. Forced by the federal government to attend the schools, Native American children were sexually assaulted ...

Oklahoma at one time had the highest number of federal Indian boarding schools, more than 80, according to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.That's one of the reasons ...

In this Special Feature, we draw from the work of experts on American Indian health inequities to highlight the unfair disparities this population faces as a result of historical trauma. Share on ...

Of great hope is Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s reintroduction of S. 1723, a bill to establish a Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States.

On Dec. 9, 2024, President Joe Biden designated the Carlisle Indian Industrial School — a place synonymous in Indian Country with torture and suffering — as the newest national monument.

A book that revealed the ‘entire story’ of Indian boarding schools would be important. This isn’t it. Students at a Presbyterian boarding school in Sitka, Alaska, in the summer of 1883.