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US to review dark history of Indigenous boarding schools

by Susan Montoya Bryan
| June 22, 2021 2:27 PM

The federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools and work to “uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences” of the institutions, which over the decades forced hundreds of thousands of children from their families and communities, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday.

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