Richard Henry Pratt and his Carlile Indian Industrial School set the standard for Indian assimilation in America and Canada. Causing ever-lasting damage to the Native American communities today.

"Free for All: The Public Library," a new documentary airing on PBS' "Independent Lens" April 29, charts the path of the ...

Sean learns of his ancestor who was sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Sean learns his paternal great-great grandmother was sent east as a child to the Carlisle Indian Industrial ...

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, known as NABS, is losing critical grant funding from the ...

The $1.6 million cuts are just a fraction of the grants canceled by the National Endowment for the Humanities in recent weeks ...

In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember grapples with the harrowing legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans and the ...

The funding, which supported work dealing with one of the darkest chapters in American history, is being reallocated in ...

The forced assimilation policy officially ended with the enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978. But the government never fully investigated the boarding school system until the Biden ...