indigenous boarding schools

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland set out four years ago on a historic journey as the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.

The Washington Post documented nearly double the number of deaths of Native American children in Indian boarding schools than what the federal government acknowledged.

The Biden-Harris administration released a 10-year national plan to support the revitalization, protection, preservation and reclamation of Indigenous languages across the U.S.

President Joe Biden declared the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in Pennsylvania on Monday. It acknowledges the decades of trauma inflicted on tribal communities throughout the U.S. and in Arizona, which had the second-highest number of the schools in the nation.

The new monument will be in Carlisle, Pa., on what was the campus of a school where about 7,800 children from more than 140 tribes were sent for assimilation between 1879 and 1918.

President Joe Biden formally apologized for the U.S. government’s role in running federal Indian boarding schools last month. About four dozen operated in Arizona and one is reflecting on the apology.

President Joe Biden has formally apologized to Native Americans for government-run boarding school systems that for decades forcibly separated Indigenous children from their parents.

President Joe Biden is paying a long-promised visit to a reservation in Arizona that Democrats hope could provide a boost to Vice President Kamala Harris’ turnout effort in a key battleground state.

President Joe Biden plans to issue an historic apology on Friday for the nation's 150-year campaign to assimilate Indigenous children by taking them away to Indian boarding school system.

The investigation found marked and unmarked graves at 65 of the more than 400 U.S. boarding schools where Native American children were forcibly assimilated into white society.