Taken from their families and sent to remote boarding schools, Native American children often faced sexual abuse by priests, brothers or sisters who ran the facilities.
For 150 years, U.S. policy forced Native American children into boarding schools built to eradicate their culture and assimilate them into White society.
A national oral history project aims to document the experiences of Indigenous children who attended federal boarding schools. The Department of the Interior announced the project in September as part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative.The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) has been entrusted to lead the project with $3.7 million in
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