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Shoes, slate and pottery have been found around the approximate site of the former Indian Manual Labor Training School, which ...
A class-action lawsuit calls on the government to provide a "full accounting" of costs borne by tribes for Indian boarding ...
The Indian River County School Board unanimously altered its policy for public comment. Speakers who use profanity, use ...
This undated photo provided by the Library of Congress shows the Thomas Indian school in Irving, N.Y. (Library of Congress via AP) This undated photo provided by the Library of Congress shows the ...
More than half a century after the Thomas Indian School closed, local remaining Native American survivors of the institution ...
About 75,000 pages of Indian boarding school records sit in online storage systems that “can’t be touched until we get new funding.” ...
The boarding residential school was part of the United States policy of forced assimilation for Native youth, to strip them of their culture and... Hochul apologizes for 'ethnic cleansing' at ...
Hochul apologizes for 'ethnic cleansing' at Thomas Indian School "Today, on behalf of the State of New York, I Governor Kathy Hochul, apologize to the Seneca Nation of Indians and survivors and ...
Hochul was in Irving, New York, near the site of the Thomas Indian School, over two months after she claimed the tribal nation asked her to visit. She apologized for the “historical atrocities ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul issued an official apology on behalf of the State of New York on Tuesday morning at the William Seneca Building on Seneca Nation land for the “atrocities” committed at the Thomas ...
Hochul also met with former students and their descendants of the Thomas Indian School, which operated from 1875 until 1957. Staff at the school stripped native children of their traditional ...