Lorenda Long, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, wants to make sure that Indian boarding schools still operating today are the best places for young Native students who want to attend.

The School was established at an abandoned trading post at Algert in Arizona's Blue Canyon, today a ghost town. It had an initial enrollment of 14 Navajo children.

There were about 47 boarding schools in Arizona, with two of them in Many Farms, a community near Chinle on the Navajo Nation. Council Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty greets one of the people at a ...

Once a boarding school, ... STINA SIEG, BYLINE: Joslynn Lee's first experience of science was as a little girl on the Navajo Nation. JOSLYNN LEE: And it was really with my grandma, my nelly.

Navajo citizen Lorenda Long, who attended a federal boarding school as a young girl, is a supporter of students at Riverside Indian School today. (Brittany Bendabout for NPR) On a hot afternoon ...

She was raised on the Navajo Nation and forced to go to a boarding school in Kayenta, Arizona, as a young girl. “It was the government that put me there,” she said.

There were about 47 boarding schools in Arizona, with two of them in Many Farms, a community near Chinle on the Navajo Nation. Enduring punishment as her friends watched ...

Greyeyes, who is Navajo, said Indian boarding schools are a key part of the country’s story. “When we talk about boarding schools, we have to honor the legacy of that as part of our history ...

SALT LAKE CITY — At 5 years old, Mark Maryboy left his home on the Navajo Nation Reservation to attend a boarding school about 150 miles away.

A class-action lawsuit calls on the government to provide a "full accounting" of costs borne by tribes for Indian boarding ...

The schools were tools of the U.S. government's attempts to erase tribal culture. But the few that remain have become places Native families want their children to attend. Search Query Show Search ...

Navajo citizen Lorenda Long, who attended a federal boarding school as a young girl, is a supporter of students at Riverside Indian School today.