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Pope Francis looks at a woman wearing a flag with the slogan Every Child Matters" on it at the end of a meeting with Indigenous people in Quebec City on Friday, July 29, 2022, part of his papal visit across Canada (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)

Pope visits Nunavut for final apology of his Canadian tour

By Associated PressJul 29, 2022

People watch for Pope Francis to arrive for mass in Edmonton, during his Papal visit across Canada on Tuesday July 26, 2022. Pope Francis apologized to the Indigenous communities for the Roman Catholic Church's role in the residential school system. (Jason Franson /The Canadian Press via AP)

The Wrap: The tragedy of residential, boarding schools

By ICTJul 29, 2022

People displays a banner during Pope Francis mass at the National Shrine of Saint Anne de Beaupré in Quebec City, Canada, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Pope Francis celebrates Mass in Quebec and gives marching orders to the country's priests, deacons and religious sisters. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

'Rescind the Doctrine' protest greets pope in Canada

By Associated PressJul 29, 2022

Members of the Chauncey Eagle Horn/Phillip Iyotte American Legion opened the ceremony in Rosebud by posting an eagle feather staff, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe flag, the POW flag and the U.S. flag in front of the nine teepees erected to honor the children and their families on July 14, 2022. (Photo by Vi Waln, ICT)

Rosebud holds memorial service for boarding school relatives

By Vi WalnJul 15, 2022

A canoe leaves the shore of Tulalip Bay after the 2022 Salmon Ceremony. (Isabella Breda / The Herald)

After decades of outlawed culture, a Tulalip revival

By The Daily HeraldJul 14, 2022

The U.S. government has operated the Chemawa Indian School since 1880. The school was created as part of a government campaign to assimilate Indigenous youth. It was still open in 2022. (Isabella Breda / The Herald)

Unearthing the ‘horrors’ of the Tulalip Indian School

By The Daily HeraldJul 13, 2022

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is seen from the burial place of Chief Red Cloud, the 19th century warrior, on Sept. 30, 2021 in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Red Cloud defended against U.S. land grabs but eventually invited the Jesuits to start Holy Rosary Mission, now the Red Cloud Indian School. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)

Episcopalians to study role in boarding schools

By The Associated PressJul 12, 2022

Matthew War Bonnet, 76, attended St. Francis Indian School in South Dakota from 1952-1960. Photographed in Tulalip, Washington on June 13, 2022. (Kevin Clark / The Herald)

Pain passed from generation to generation

By The Daily HeraldJul 12, 2022

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, shakes the hands of boarding school survivors at the press conference in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2022. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT)

‘Road to Healing’ begins in Oklahoma

By Kalle Benallie · ICTJul 7, 2022

Chemawa Indian Training School, 1905. (Photo courtesy of Pacific University)

Feds looking at finances of boarding school

By The Associated PressJun 29, 2022

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland at the Interior Department's press conference on its federal boarding school investigation in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)

Native leaders push for boarding school commission

By Mary Annette PemberJun 23, 2022

A tombstone of an unknown student that attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School sits on the grounds of the present-day U.S. Army War College. The proposed Truth and Healing Commission would be charged with investigating unmarked grave sites and other abuses of the Indian boarding school system. (File photo by Addison Kliewer/Gaylord News)

Army: Disinterred remains do not match Native boy

By The Associated PressJun 21, 2022

A tombstone of an unknown student that attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School sits on the grounds of the present-day U.S. Army War College. The proposed Truth and Healing Commission would be charged with investigating unmarked grave sites and other abuses of the Indian boarding school system. (File photo by Addison Kliewer/Gaylord News)

Bill advances for Indian boarding schools commission

By Cronkite NewsJun 16, 2022

Quarters 2 that was part of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School campus. When the school arrived in 1879, Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt moved in with his family. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT, file)

Native children's remains to be moved from Army cemetery

By Associated PressJun 15, 2022

Chilocco Indian School was a federal off-reservation boarding school established to house, civilize, Christianize, educate, and transform American Indian youth. Thousands of Native children and young adults passed under the school's entryway arch. In January 1884, Chilocco opened its doors in 1884 to 150 children from the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, Comanche, and Pawnee tribes. It closed in 1980. (Photo courtesy Oklahoma History Center)

Truth and Healing Commission subpoena authority jeopardizes support

By Gaylord NewsMay 31, 2022

Brittany Smoke teaches second- and third-graders how to make corn husk dolls at the Tonawanda Band of Seneca's Council of Chiefs' building. The students attend the after-school program to learn conversational Seneca. (Photo by WXXI)

'This is my home. And this is where I thrive'

By WXXI NEWSMay 24, 2022

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland at the Interior Department's press conference on its federal boarding school investigation in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)

US reckoning with role in boarding schools

By Felicia Fonseca, AP WriterMay 12, 2022

This July 8, 2021 image of a photograph archived at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, shows a group of Indigenous students who attended the Ramona Industrial School in Santa Fe. The late 19th century image is among many in the Horatio Oliver Ladd Photograph Collection that are related to the boarding school. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

US boarding school investigative report released

By Kalle BenallieMay 11, 2022

Statues of a nun and Native children in a shrine outside of St. Mary's Church on the Bad River Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin. St. Mary's Indian Boarding School was located on this site but has since been torn down. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember/Indian Country Today)

An unexpected apology

By ICTMay 2, 2022

Members of the Assembly of First Nations perform in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Pope Francis has welcomed First Nations delegations to the Vatican. They are seeking an apology for the Catholic Church's role in running Canada's notorious residential schools for Indigenous children. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope apologizes for churches' role in Canadian Indian residential schools

By Mary Annette PemberApr 1, 2022

Assembly of First Nations member Rosanne Casimiro Ttes talks to journalists outside St. Peter's Square at the end of a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

First Nations meet with pope over Canada school abuses

By The Associated PressMar 31, 2022

The Native American Women's Color Guard salutes as members of the Sicangu Youth Council help provide a formal burial on July 17, 2021, at the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Veteran's Cemetery for six ancestors who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the 1880s. The remains were finally returned to the homelands after 140 years, wrapped in buffalo robe bundles and placed in cedar boxes. (Photo by Vi Waln for Indian Country Today)

Report on federal Indian boarding schools due

By Mary Annette PemberMar 31, 2022

Arizona boarding school legislation calls for investigation

By Grace BenallyMar 30, 2022

President of the Metis community, Cassidy Caron, speaks to the media in St. Peter's Square after their meeting with Pope Francis at The Vatican, Monday, March 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Indigenous leaders tell pope of abuses at residential schools

By The Associated PressMar 28, 2022

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