Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) Oral History Project has been traveling across the United States recording the stories of survivors who attended federally supported Indian boarding schools before 1970.
The project is a key element of the U.S. Department of the Interior's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative-a landmark effort to uncover, acknowledge, and address the history and legacy of the federal Indian boarding school system. These testimonies will become part of a permanent collection at the Library of Congress, helping to preserv...
