Jenna Kunze (Native News Online)

The 106-page report — penned by Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Bryan Newland — details for the first time that the federal government operated or supported 408 boarding schools across 37 states, including Alaska and Hawai’i, between 1819 and 1969. About half of the boarding schools were staffed or paid for by a religious institution. The investigation identified marked and unmarked burial sites at 53 of those schools, though the Department expects to find the number of children buried at boarding schools across the nation to be in the “thousands or tens of thousands,” as the investigation continues.

Historic documents from the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)—a monumental land claim that ultimately set the stakes by which Alaska Natives live in terms of land allotment and shareholder corporations—were donated to a university library in Anorchage on Wednesday.

The group at the helm of the Indian Boarding School reckoning movement—the Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS)—announced new leadership last week.

From Jan. 1, the seven day average positivity rate was 17.6% across all IHS service areas, up from the previous week’s rate of 13.7%.The vast majority of positive cases are attributed to the Omicron variant, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says.