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Colorado’s Fort Lewis College — a former Indian boarding school — names its first Native American president
Heather Shotton, an enrolled citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and a descendant of the Kiowa and Cheyenne tribes, ...
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Trump cuts $1.6 million for research into Native American boarding school abuse
The Trump administration is making major cuts to research projects that investigated abuse at Native American boarding ...
Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects
The $1.6 million cuts are just a fraction of the grants canceled by the National Endowment for the Humanities in recent weeks ...
NEH cuts $1.5 million from grants to research Indian boarding schools
The funding, which supported work dealing with one of the darkest chapters in American history, is being reallocated in ...
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New Stations of the Cross focus on suffering of Native Americans, path to healing
This Lent, a new version of a Catholic devotion seeks to acknowledge the traumas experienced by Native people, including ...
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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 ...
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Will ‘patriotic’ indoctrination be the next attack on Native American schoolchildren?
Soon after Donald Trump returned to the White House, he issued an executive order that some fear could become an ...
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Trump Administration Makes Major Cuts to Native American Boarding School Research Projects
At least 973 Native American children died at government ... researchers say the actual number was much higher. The forced assimilation policy officially ended with the enactment of the Indian ...