Dana Hedgpeth

• Investigations

In Friday vote, church leaders cite a “history of trauma” inflicted on Native Americans, including generations of children removed from their families to be forcibly assimilated.

• Live Chats

Dana Hedgpeth and Sari Horwitz answered questions about their reporting on Tuesday during a live chat.

• Investigations

For 150 years, U.S. policy forced Native American children into boarding schools built to eradicate their culture and assimilate them into White society.

• Investigations

Taken from their families and sent to remote boarding schools, Native American children often faced sexual abuse by priests, brothers or sisters who ran the facilities.

• Post Reports

In a moment of reckoning, survivors of the U.S.-run Indian boarding schools are speaking out and trying to hold the U.S. government accountable.

• National

A nonprofit Native American group has found details about 115 more Indian boarding schools in the United States.

• Retropolis

Forced by the federal government to attend the schools, generations of Native American children were sexually assaulted, beaten and emotionally abused

• Animals

It marks the first time in years that an entire brood of peregrine falcon chicks has survived and fledged from cliffs that were once a historic breeding site.

• Local Crime & Public Safety

The problems affected customers in Montgomery, Calvert, Charles, St. Mary’s and Prince George’s counties.