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Biden creates a new national monument marking the legacy of Indian boarding schools

11:11am December 09, 2024

The new monument will be in Carlisle, Pa., on what was the campus of a school where about 7,800 children from more than 140 tribes were sent for assimilation between 1879 to 1918.

Pope Francis delivers remarks as he meets Indigenous communities — including First Nations, Metis and Inuit — at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church in Maskwacis, near Edmonton, Canada, on Monday.

The pope's apology in Canada was historic, but for some Indigenous people, not enough

7:10pm July 25, 2022

by Scott Neuman

Francis issued the apology years after a Canadian-government-funded report said children had been physically and sexually abused at the mostly Catholic-run schools in the country.

Indigenous artists from across Canada perform in St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on Friday after Pope Francis apologized for the Catholic Church's actions in Canadian residential schools.

The pope apologizes for abuse of Indigenous children in Canada's residential schools

4:05pm April 01, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

Pope Francis met with Indigenous leaders and survivors of Canada's residential schools this week. He had expressed sorrow in the past on behalf of the church, but this is the first formal apology.

Stewart Indian School students are seen in a classroom in Carson, Nev., in an undated photo. The state of Nevada plans to fully cooperate with federal efforts to investigate the history of Native American boarding schools.

Nevada's governor apologizes for the state's past role in Indigenous schools

9:26am December 04, 2021

by The Associated Press

Gov. Steve Sisolak apologized on behalf of his state and promised to cooperate with an investigation of the federal government's past policies and oversight of Native American boarding schools.