The state Office of the Child Advocate is pushing for stricter oversight of residential schools that serve children with autism and other disabilities, including a recommendation that the state ...

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 ...

Children with severe autism placed in residential schools are among society’s most vulnerable members. The state, which licenses these schools, has a responsibility to care for students.

Harper used this phrase in 2008 when he apologized in the House of Commons on behalf of all Canadians for the abuse that generations of Indigenous children suffered at residential schools.

NPR's David Folkenflik speaks with Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat about their new documentary, "Sugarcane," about Indian residential schools in Canada. In Canada, Indigenous children from ...