Christopher Eagle Bear News Today

After discoveries of more than 1,300 bodies at Canadas residential schools, the U.S. is now facing a crucial moment of reckoning with its own history of Native American boarding schools.

View Comments A group of Rosebud Sioux children walk down a grassy hill, long hair blowing in the wind, toward the waters of Whetstone Bay, glistening blue, where a steamboat that will take them to a new kind of boarding school in Pennsylvania waits. They don’t know they’ll never see their parents again, or that their parents, and generations after them will fight to get them back. More than 140 years later, the remains of nine of the children returned Friday to South Dakota after a two-d...