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This undated photo provided by the Library of Congress shows the Thomas Indian school in Irving, N.Y. (Library of Congress via AP) This undated photo provided by the Library of Congress shows the ...
More than half a century after the Thomas Indian School closed, local remaining Native American survivors of the institution ...
Indigenous archivists are grappling with a federal funding cut that targeted groups preserving the history of Indian boarding ...
Tribal leaders say the funding cuts have serious implications for boarding school survivors, their families and the general ...
The Maryland States Department of Education (MSDE) has named Indian Head Elementary School a Purple Star School, recognizing ...
The Minnesota-based National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition was among the groups affected by federal funding cuts for the humanities.
The boarding residential school was part of the United States policy of forced assimilation for Native youth, to strip them of their culture and... Hochul apologizes for 'ethnic cleansing' at ...
Hochul was in Irving, New York, near the site of the Thomas Indian School, over two months after she claimed the tribal nation asked her to visit. She apologized for the “historical atrocities ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul issued an official apology on behalf of the State of New York on Tuesday morning at the William Seneca Building on Seneca Nation land for the “atrocities” committed at the Thomas ...
Hochul also met with former students and their descendants of the Thomas Indian School, which operated from 1875 until 1957. Staff at the school stripped native children of their traditional ...