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The Thomas Indian School is one of many residential boarding schools across the US and Canada that were used to carry out government policies of forced assimilation. Thousands of children from ...
Governor Kathy Hochul there, during her visit to the Seneca Nation’s Cattaraugus Territory, to formally apologize for the state’s operation of the Thomas Indian School which went on for ...
The Democrat, speaking on the grounds of the former Thomas Indian School on Seneca Nation land, said students were subjected to “unimaginable physical, emotional and sexual assaults” during ...
The Thomas Indian School was owned and operated by the State of New York on the Cattaraugus Territory for about 75 years of its existence from from 1875 until it closed in 1957.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issues a formal apology on behalf of New York State for its role in operating the Thomas Indian School, Tuesday,May 20, 2025, outside the William Seneca Administration ...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issues a formal apology on behalf of New York State for its role in operating the Thomas Indian School … New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issues a formal apology on behalf ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul is also expected to meet with survivors of the Thomas Indian School, which operated from 1875 to 1957 in western New York near Lake Erie.