Indigenous people expressed mixed reaction to a federal report outlining institutions where there were reported multiple forms of abuse in the name of assimilation into Christian, Eurocentric culture.

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) today released its initial findings after a nine-month investigation into the fraught legacy of Indian Boarding Schools that the U.S. government ran or ...

Lena Hammons, left, and Patti Gobin, both Tulalip tribal members, lead others in the Welcome Song at the Tulalip Gathering Hall on Saturday in Tulalip. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Assistant ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools that for over a century sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 1,000 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children, including 60 from the Pacific Northwest, died while attending boarding schools set up by the U.S. government for ...

The languages, cultures and history of Native American tribes were "targeted for destruction" by federal Indian boarding schools, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Wednesday, and some of the ...