Report says close to 1,000 Native American children died in boarding schools

At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released July 30 by officials who called on the government to apologize for the schools.

The investigation commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland found marked and unmarked graves at 65 of the more than 400 U.S. boarding schools that were established to forcibly assimilate Native American children into white society. The findings don’t specify how each child died, but the causes of death included sickness, accidents and abuse during a 150-year...