An effort to digitize and make publicly available Indian boarding school records was halted when the Trump administration implemented mass layoffs and slashed funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Without funding, about 75,000 pages of boarding school records sit in online storage systems that cannot be accessed. Tribal leaders say the cuts disrupt critical healing processes for boarding school survivors, families and tribes and keep the general public from learning the truth of what happened at these schools.
