A former Chemawa teacher, in a U.S. House hearing, said a special education student reported being raped on campus but that administrators “had not provided her counseling or medical treatment."
A former Chemawa teacher, in a U.S. House hearing, said a special education student reported being raped on campus but that administrators “had not provided her counseling or medical treatment."
As Native American students face what one BIE superintendent called "extreme challenges," Circle of Nations School welcomed a reporter and photographer inside. "We want the exposure," an administrator said.
Pierre Indian Learning Center staff did not follow protocol after a girl discussed suicide multiple times or even after the suicide attempt that led to her death, a lawsuit contended.
Within the federal government s sprawling Bureau of Indian Education school system, allegations of abuse, neglect and even death at BIE schools have emerged over the past two decades.