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A class-action lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania argues that Native tribes have never been compensated for the child abuse or for ...
Mary Annette Pember’s mother​ attended an Indian residential school through the eighth grade. It forever changed her—and her children.
NEW YORK — New York’s governor visited the Seneca Nation on Tuesday and formally apologized for “atrocities” she says were ...
But many emphasized that the apology is just a first step in helping families and tribal communities heal from the generational… Sexual abuse of Native American children at boarding schools ...
French settlers called it Bad River; to the Native Americans who lived there first ... were sent to St. Mary’s Catholic Indian Boarding School in Odanah. She was 5. “Medicine River: A Story ...
Trump’s funding cuts are stalling efforts to heal the wounds of this country’s tragic experiment in forced assimilation.
In ‘Medicine River,’ journalist Mary Annette Pember confronts the legacy of boarding schools and the trauma ... awards for your work focusing on Native American issues, as well as grants ...
NEW YORK — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul formally apologized Tuesday for the “atrocities” she says were committed at an upstate ...
Parker, a citizen of the Tulalip Tribes in Washington state, said Native Americans nationwide depend on the site to find loved ones who were taken or sent to these boarding schools. Searching that ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York visited Seneca land on Tuesday to apologize for the state’s operation of a boarding school that ...
Before TU was TU ... start with the truth about the true American history," said Deborah Parker, CEO of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. Roberta “Birdie ...