Richard Henry Pratt and his Carlile Indian Industrial School set the standard for Indian assimilation in America and Canada.

The forced assimilation policy was finally and officially rejected with the enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978. Despite this policy shift, however, the government never fully ...

Elicia Goodsoldier stood in front of a group of nearly 50 Indigenous people on a Saturday in June to initiate the Phoenix ...

Assimilation has been crucial in Indian-Americans’ ability to connect with the broader population and gain their trust and support while at the same time remaining true to their genuine roots.

(AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) The stories in Mary Annette Pember’s new book, Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools, are almost unbearable. They are stories of ...

Indian Americans cherish their roots. But first and foremost, they are Americans — bound together by a shared identity. When we abandon the expectation of assimilation, we don’t create a ...

The forced assimilation policy officially ended with the enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978. But the government never fully investigated the boarding school system until the Biden ...

President Biden on Monday announced a new national monument to tell the story of the more than 400 boarding schools where tens of thousands of American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian ...

The forced assimilation policy officially ended with the enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978. But the government never fully investigated the boarding school system until the Biden ...

A recently introduced bill aims to eliminate more residual inequities in the registration section of the Indian Act, but some ...