Trump administration makes major cuts to Native American boarding school research projects
At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. government were slashed because of federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration.
The cuts are just a fraction of the grants canceled by the National Endowment for the Humanities in recent weeks as part of the Trump administration’s deep cost-cutting effort across the federal government. Still, coming on the heels of a major federal boarding school investigation by the previous administration and an apology by then-President Joe Biden in October, they illustrate a seismic shift.
HALLIE GOLDEN Associated Press April 22, 2025
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