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A new federal investigation has found nearly 1,000 Native American children died while attending boarding schools created to strip them of their culture. The report, commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, calls on the government to apologize.

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A new report from History Colorado details the atrocities that occurred at the Fort Lewis Indian Boarding School. Tribal Radio’s Sarah Flower reports on the findings and how Fort Lewis College is reconciling in the wake of this news.

The federal government is taking new steps to preserve the oral history of Native American boarding schools that were run by governments and churches.

The remains of five Native American children who died at a notorious Indian boarding school more than a century ago will be returned to their living relatives.

As a part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Endowment for the Humanities will digitize records that document the experiences of those who survived Indian boarding schools and their descendants. $4 million from the NEH will also support a related oral history project.

My Powerful Hair, a new book by author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Steph Littlebird, conveys the importance of hair in Native American culture despite the enduring traumas of the federal boarding school era.