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Tribes sue U.S. government over deaths, abuse at boarding schools
Two Native American tribes filed a class-action lawsuit over deaths and abuse at U.S. government-run Indian boarding schools.
Tribes sue for full accounting of money used to fund Native American boarding schools
The lawsuit seeks to compel the United States to release all records to provide accounting for a program that brutalized ...
Two tribes sue Doug Burgum and the Interior Department over boarding schools
Indigenous tribes in Nevada and California are suing the federal government over its role in funding violent boarding schools ...
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Native Tribes File Historic Lawsuit Over Federal Indian Boarding Schools
The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California have filed a groundbreaking 68- page lawsuit ...
Tribes say the U.S. misappropriated funds to pay for Native American boarding schools
The Wichita Tribe and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California filed a lawsuit saying the federal government used the trust ...
Two Native American tribes file federal lawsuit in PA calling for full accounting of money used to fund Native boarding schools
The tribes seek a court-mandated accounting of billions of dollars used to operate the schools, as well as the labor of ...
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Michigan nonprofit reclaims Native birth traditions
Miigwech Inc. seeks to address health disparities affecting Native American communities in Michigan through culturally ...
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Native Nations sue US government alleging misuse of trust funds for boarding schools
The Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita Tribe) and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California (Washoe Tribe) filed a class action trust accounting lawsuit on Thursday, alleging that the US ...
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Hochul apologizes for ‘atrocities’ at NY state boarding school for Native Americans
Gov. Kathy Hochul formally apologized Tuesday for the “atrocities” she says were committed at an Irving boarding school where ...
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Tribal Nations Demand Accountability for Misused Trust Funds
Two tribal nations have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government for using trust fund money to fund abusive boarding ...
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A Daughter’s Reckoning With the Indian Boarding School System
The Bad River reservation was one of the poorest in Wisconsin, and Bernice’s grandmother had to fall back on “the chilcare choice of last resort”—an Indian boarding school. At the school ...