Slug: BC-CNS-Boarding School Histories,1640 words. 9 photos, audio available (thumbnails, captions below) By Ellie Willard Cronkite News PHOENIX – A national oral history project aims to ...

For more than a century, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools. Those schools stripped children of their identities and cultures.

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday paid a visit to the Thomas Indian School, where she issued an apology to Native Americans on behalf of New Yorkers for the state's "sanctioned ethnic cleansing" and long ...