Disinterment and repatriation is important work, but it’s only just begun, and it’s not the only work that needs to be done to...

By the 1960s and early 1970s, activist movements across the country had begun to call for better national policies to support minority groups and...

On today’s episode of Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, we are going to explore an explosive pendulum swing in the mindset of the...

Today, we are going to explore the Native boarding school systems in Canada, and in our 49th and 50th states, Alaska and Hawaii. The US...

In 1880, Richard Pratt opened the Carlisle School’s Outing Program. While the program had a rocky start, Pratt chose to expand the following...

In 1908, an anthropologist traveled to the Western states to examine an outbreak of tuberculosis and found that 20 percent–or one in every...

Richard Pratt’s boarding schools for Native American children didn’t just materialize out of thin air. The idea that it was the job of...

As the idea that the best way to handle the “Indian Problem” in America was to civilize their youth took hold in the late 19th...

Welcome to our new series, Taken: Native Boarding Schools in America where we dive into the complex history of the United States Government's...