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 ...

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.

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 ...

The discovery of 751 unmarked graves at the Marieval Indian Residential School is the latest in Canada’s grim tally. Deedee Lerat attended the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan ...

For some, discussing the history of residential schools elicits the kind of vitriol that Murray Sinclair himself studiously avoided. He refused to call the intent of residential school policy a ...

Files documenting the worst abuses at residential schools are set to be destroyed in 2027 and, despite a multi-year outreach, some survivors say they didn't know they could opt to have their files ...

Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native ...

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.

After two years of horror stories about the alleged mass graves of Indigenous children at residential schools across Canada, a series of recent excavations at suspected sites has turned up no ...

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 ...

Residential schools for disabled students are welcoming but worsen the students' dislocation from their home communities. A long-delayed report on the three schools published this week said the ...

The Tamil Nadu government has decided to upgrade infrastructure and other facilities at Government Tribal Residential Schools run by the Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department at a cost of ...