Fort Shaw

Fort Shaw was a military fort during the late 1800s. A year after the Fort was abandoned by the US military the Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School was opened. Indigenous advocates remember sorted family histories and grapple with a new federal initiative to better understand the impact of boarding schools throughout Montana and the U.S.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland this week released plans to address the U.S.’s fraught history with federally run residential schools aimed at assimilating Indigenous children into white Western culture.