WGAL

Carlisle Indian School disinterment program returns children to their tribes

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the first federally funded, off-reservation boarding school for Indigenous children in the United States. From 1879-1918, approximately 7,800 students were ...
OPB

Honoring the lost kids of Chemawa Indian School

This story originally appeared on Underscore.news. Last week, a tattered blue mattress and mounds of trash littered the entrance to the Chemawa Cemetery – the final resting place of approximately 175 ...
The New York Times

‘War Against the Children’

For more than 150 years, spurred by federal assimilation policies beginning in the early 19th century, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were sent to boarding schools across the ...
WGAL

19 Native American children will be disinterred from Carlisle Indian School cemetery

AGO, AND HAS THIS UPDATE. THE REMAINS OF 19 STUDENTS ARE SET TO BE RETURNED TO THEIR LOVED ONES THIS FALL. 18 OF THEM ARE FROM THE SAME TRIBE KNOWN AS THE CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO TRIBES OF OKLAHOMA. I ...
NPR

Nearly a thousand children died at Indian boarding schools funded by the U.S.

The federal government today expanded the number of children known to have died in the repressive boarding school system that, for more than a century, pulled Native American children from their homes ...
The Washington Post

U.S. created Indian boarding schools to destroy cultures and seize land

From 1819 to 1969, the U.S. government separated Native American children from their families to eradicate their cultures, assimilate them into White society and seize tribal land. The following nine ...
The Denver Post

At least 76 Native American children died at Colorado boarding schools, new investigation finds

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At least 76 Native American children died at Colorado boarding schools designed to strip them of their Indigenous language, culture and heritage, according ...