Hochul is planning a historic visit to Seneca Nation Territory to apologize for the state’s role in the abuses carried out at the Thomas Indian School. In a joint statement, the governor and Seneca ...

More than half a century after the Thomas Indian School closed, local remaining Native American survivors of the institution ...

Archival photos show what life was like in the boarding school for Native American children. Young women and girls before a meal in the Thomas Indian School dining hall circa 1890.Credit ...

Kathy Hochul traveled to the territory of the largest Native tribe in New York State Tuesday to apologize for the atrocities committed at the long-closed Thomas Indian School, where Native ...

The Democrat, speaking on the grounds of the former Thomas Indian School on Seneca Nation land, said students were subjected to “unimaginable physical, emotional and sexual assaults” during ...

For over 100 years, more than 2,500 students were forced to attend the former Thomas Indian School on Seneca Nation land, where they were stripped of their names, language, appearance and cultural ...

“Today, on behalf of the State of New York, I Governor Kathy Hochul, apologize to the Seneca Nation of Indians and survivors and descendants from all nations who attended the Thomas Indian ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul also met with survivors of the Thomas Indian School, which operated from 1875 to 1957 in western New York near Lake Erie. Seneca President J. Conrad Seneca, whose father attended ...