U.S. To Review 'Dark History' Of Indigenous Boarding Schools

For over 150 years, indigenous children were taken from their communities and forced into boarding schools that focused on assimilation.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday that the federal government will investigate its past oversight of Native American boarding schools. Haaland is the country's first indigenous Cabinet secretary. She said her department will work to "uncover the truth about the loss of human life and the lasting consequences" of the institutions, which over the decades forced hundreds of thousands of children from their families and communities.