‘Painful and Traumatic’, Survivors Recount Horrors at U.S. indigenous Boarding Schools

Sexual abuse and exploitation were common at Native American boarding schools, survivors told a U.S. House subcommittee on Thursday while recounting their harrowing ordeals.

A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools, released on Wednesday, found that for over a century these schools sought to incorporate indigenous children into white society, which led to at least 500 students dying of brutal physical abuse.