Founded by Robert Lichfield, who with others started numerous tough-love schools across the country, Midwest Academy was run by Ben Trane and housed around 100 students. After the FBI raided the ...

Like boarding schools in the U.S., they separated Native Americans from their own families and cultures in an attempt to — quote — "get rid" of the Indian problem. Emily Kassie: ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stephanie Scott, executive director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, about the pope's apology to Indigenous peoples for Canada's residential schools.

Girls at a residential school in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, around 1936. It is estimated that roughly one-third of all Indigenous children were enrolled in the schools by the 1930s.

More oversight needed of residential schools specializing in autism and other disabilities, state’s child advocate says By Liz Kowalczyk Globe Staff,Updated October 13, 2023, 6:00 a.m.

More grizzly discoveries would continue across the country tied to the nation’s history between 1881 and 1996 of forcing more than 150,000 Indigenous children to attend residential schools that ...