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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...