2024 Boarding School Healing News Stories
Indian Country responds to President Biden’s historic apology (Native News Online) 10/28/2024
Historic apology: boarding school history ‘a sin on our soul’: President Joe Biden delivers an apology to Native people for the nation’s ugly history of Indian boarding schools (ICT) 10/25/2024
Forced assimilation and abuse: How US boarding schools devastated Native American Tribes (ABC News) 10/24/2024
'I'm home after all these years' (ICT) 9/26/2024
Army begins disinterment and return of remains for 11 Native children who died at Carlisle Indian boarding school (Native News Online) 9/5/2024
The U.S. is standing in the way of repatriating the bodies of Native kids who died at the Carlisle School (Esquire) 9/3/2024
Obscure government agency at center of Carlisle repatriation dispute (ICT) 8/29/2024
New federal report urges U.S. to strengthen international ties for healing from Indian boarding school legacy (Native News Online) 8/12/2024
Extension to file claim: Important information on sexual abuse claims re: Franciscan Friars of California (Native News Online) 8/1/2024
DOI releases final report on the traumatic legacy of Indian boarding schools (Native News Online) 7/30/2024
An elopement, quarry carving and letters home: records shed light on Pipestone’s Indian boarding school (MinnPost) 7/26/2024
History Colorado seeking input from Indigenous community as part of research into past boarding school abuses (The Colorado Sun) 7/24/2024
‘Bring our kids home’: Winnebago Tribe in court over children buried at Indian boarding school (Indianz) 7/16/2024
Truth and Healing Commission bill heads to the Senate floor (Native News Online) 6/26/2024
Truth and healing commission bill advances (Native News Online) 6/14/2024
Native American boarding school records reveal hidden truths (USA Today) 6/17/2024
US bishops release pastoral framework for healing with Native Catholics (Native News Online) 6/15/2024
‘In the name of God’ (Washington Post) 5/29/2024
New boarding school database helps Native families find ancestors (Minnesota Public Radio) 5/25/2024
Research into Colorado’s Indian boarding school history to continue under new law (Colorado Newsline) 5/24/2024
Deb Haaland confronts the history of the federal agency she leads (New Yorker) 4/29/2024
Eleven more students will go home from Carlisle (ICT) 4/24/2024
Army seeks extension in lawsuit over return of Native childrens’ remains (Native News Online) 4/19/2024
Army to send home 11 Native children from former Indian boarding school (Native News Online) 4/11/2024
Tribal nations receive $411,000 to document impact of federal Indian boarding school era (Native News Online) 4/11/2024
Most up-to-date list of Genoa Indian Boarding School attendees released (Native News Online) 3/15/2024
How Ute Tribes in Colorado resisted U.S. boarding schools (The Colorado Sun) 2/27/2024
Indian boarding school bill seeks to create accountability, healing (Native News Online) 2/6/2024
Indigenous boarding school research and advocacy groups meet in Texas to establish 81st General Convention priorities (Episcopal News Service) 1/22/2024
Tribe sues to force U.S. Army to hand over remains of 2 children (Axios) 1/17/2024
