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Nonprofit AT LAST! expands Oak Cliff "boarding experience" for more students
AT LAST! may have been a long time coming, but the Oak Cliff-based nonprofit is going places. The nation's first "boarding ...
Moving beyond boarding schools event at Alaska Native Heritage Center
A summit was held on Friday to continue the healing of former Alaska Native boarding school students and their families after ...
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Q&A: A daughter tells her Native mother’s story — and a larger American one
In ‘Medicine River,’ journalist Mary Annette Pember confronts the legacy of boarding schools and the trauma passed down through generations ...
'Medicine River' reckons with the legacy of Indian boarding schools — through a daughter's eyes
In "Medicine River," Mary Annette Pember grapples with the harrowing legacy of boarding schools for Native Americans and the trauma they inflicted on her own family.
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Major funding cuts made to Native American boarding school research
At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S ...
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At Nebraska boarding school, search for graves, closure continues
(Photo by Rebecca S. Gratz for the Flatwater Free Press) State officials remain hopeful in ongoing search as Interior Department reviews Biden-era initiative examining history of U.S. Native American ...
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Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects
At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S ...