U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaiʻi), the committee’s vice chair, have introduced bipartisan legislation designed to ...

Even before they’re convicted of a crime, Native American children are 6.4 times more likely to be kept in detention than white children. After being tried in court, they’re 6.1 times more likely to ...

Native American mothers whose children were separated from them—either through child removal for assimilation into residential boarding schools or through coerced adoption—experience the kind of grief ...

WASHINGTON – Nearly 1,000 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died while attending boarding schools that were set up by the U.S. government for the purpose of erasing their ...

From the early 1800s to the late 1960s, the federal government forced Native American children into boarding schools where they faced abuse and neglect that led in some cases to death. By Peter Baker ...

FORT COVINGTON, N.Y. — Rumors spread on social media over the winter: School kids with disabilities in the Salmon River Central School District, including Akwesasne Mohawk children, were being ...

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

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by Interior ...

In November 2000, the Heard Museum in Phoenix opened a groundbreaking exhibition, “Remembering our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience.” The show, so popular that an updated version ...

Last month, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a horrendous report showing that at least 900 Native American children died in the care of U.S. boarding schools — facilities they were forced ...

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we spoke with the creators of six children’s books out this year highlighting different aspects of Indigenous culture and life in their works. The spark for ...

For the past 30 years, it’s been clear: Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be arrested and jailed than white kids. The state’s courts and Washington Department of ...