Nearly 1,000 Native American children died or were killed while forced to attend U.S. government-affiliated boarding schools, according to a report by the Interior Department. The children are buried ...
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 ...
Like many of the Native American children forced to live at the Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School, Martha Shagonaby didn’t want to give up her language, customs, culture or family. And, ...