The report doesn’t really periodize American Indian history very well. We generally date the boarding school era from 1879 when Carlisle, the first of the off-reservation federal schools, was ...

Ignored for generations, American Indian history has become among the most dynamic fields of U.S. historical inquiry, contributing significantly to the rise of settler colonial studies as well as ...

Native American adoption era history. The Bureau of Indian Affairs established the Indian Adoption Project in 1958. Like the Boarding School Initiative, the goal of forced Native adoptions was to ...

WASHINGTON — Native American team names mean honor and respect. That’s what executives of pro sports clubs often say. History tells a different story. Kevin Gover punctuates this point with a ...

During history major Maddie Henderson's internship at the National Museum of the American Indian, she sought to learn more about the Indian boarding school era and how forced assimilation has ...

President Biden on Friday formally apologized for the federal government's Native American boarding schools, calling it a "horrific era" in the nation's history. “The federal government has ...