As do other area districts, Broken Arrow’s Indian Education Services ... year-old Matthew and 8-year-old Natalie, said that with all the expenses of starting school, the free supplies and ...

In 1970, 11-year-old Johnson Kee West died after he fled the Kayenta Indian School in northern ... pain that they attributed to the boarding schools: broken families and the loss of language ...

Children as young as 4 and 5 were dragooned or tricked into these government-run schools ... that the Indian agent in Imperial County, Fannie Egan, had ordered that a 13-year-old student, Glenn ...

At a Wisconsin elementary school in the 1960s, she faced racism and presumptions of idiocy. She spent time in a juvenile detention center. “I was an Indian, inferior and broken.” Though she ...

President Joe Biden plans to formally apologize Friday for the U.S. government’s role in running hundreds of Indian boarding schools for a 150-year period that stripped Native American children ...

His visit to Arizona's Gila River Indian Community ... as young as four years old were taken from their families and communities and forced into boarding schools run by the U.S. government and ...