It sounds like something out of a movie. Children taken from their homes and families, forced to act a certain way and falling victim to abuse. Only for many Native American families the nightmare was ...

South Dakota has a secret that not many people know about. In the early 1900s, there were Catholic-run boarding schools on nearly every reservation. By law, every child had to leave their families and ...

Shabana Basij-Rasikh co-founded the only boarding school for girls in Afghanistan. Now, as the school year begins, she reflects on the power of educated women. Shabana Basij-Rasikh co-founded the only ...

Stairs lead to the basement of Drexel Hall at the Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Some community members want the basement to be searched for unmarked graves.

Justin pourier was working maintenance at the Red Cloud Indian School in 1995 when a supervisor asked him to check out a leak in the school's heating system. It was early winter in Pine Ridge, South ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the early 1990s, Justin Pourier was a maintenance man at Red Cloud Indian School, ...