Nearly 1,000 Native American children died or were killed while forced to attend U.S. government-affiliated boarding schools, according to a report by the Interior Department. The children are buried ...

WASHINGTON – Nearly 1,000 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died while attending boarding schools that were set up by the U.S. government for the purpose of erasing their ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Clarita Vargas was 8 when she was forced to live at St. Mary’s Mission ...

Editor's note: This is the eighth piece in a six-installment series about Native American children in South Dakota's foster care system, produced in partnership between the Argus Leader and South ...

CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — The Carlisle Indian Industrial School had not yet held its first class when Matavito Horse and Leah Road Traveler were taken there in October 1879, drafted into the U.S.

At least 31 Alaska Native children died in federal boarding schools, according to the latest investigative report from the U.S. Interior Department. The second volume of the Federal Indian Boarding ...

Eilís O'Neill reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2025 Child Welfare Impact Reporting Fund, which provided training, mentoring, and funding to ...