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The Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is visiting Milwaukee to collect oral histories of the states boarding ...
A new report showed that declining enrollment in Chicago leaves about 150 of its schools half-empty. The report, authored by ChalkBeat and ProPublica, found that 47 schools are operating “at less than ...
Emergency department visits exceeding 12 hours occur frequently among pediatric mental health visits resulting in admission or transfer.
After the Biden administration detailed revelations of the federal government’s role in upholding racist Native American boarding schools that historically forced Indigenous tribes to assimilate ...
The Bad River reservation was one of the poorest in Wisconsin, and Bernice’s grandmother had to fall back on “the chilcare choice of last resort”—an Indian boarding school. Medicine River ...
She knows the 12-year-old Winnebago girl became gravely ill in the winter of 1930 at the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial Boarding School. She knows Mildred died. She does not know where her aunt was ...
At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S.
As one of the most expensive boarding schools in the U.S., Woodside Priory's combined tuition and boarding fees are increasing. This coeducational Catholic institution offers a student-centered ...
CHICAGO — American Airlines’ technology that aims to eliminate boarding group scofflaws has come to Chicago. The software sounds a chime if a passenger attempts to board their flight before ...
These churches ran many of the Indian boarding schools themselves. As one teaching fellow at the University of Chicago Divinity School put it in a 2022 essay about the rise of these boarding schools, ...
If you are a boarding school survivor or a descendant, resources are available from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition at boardingschoolhealing.org. Catholic bishops ...
President Joe Biden has proclaimed a new national monument dedicated to the history of federal Indian boarding schools, which forcibly assimilated Native American children by stripping them of ...