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Sequoyah High School (also known as Sequoyah-Tahlequah) is a Native American boarding school serving students in grades 7 through 12, [4] who are members of a federally recognized Native American tribe. The school is located in Park Hill, Oklahoma, with a Tahlequah post office address, [5] [6] and is a Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) grant ...
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke in the school library during a visit in 2018. Riverside Indian School (RIS) is a Bureau of Indian Education-operated boarding school in unincorporated Caddo County, Oklahoma, with an Anadarko address, [1] for grades 4–12. [2] It first opened in 1871 in Anadarko, Oklahoma.
Jones Academy is a Native American boarding school and dormitory for students in grades 1–12 in unincorporated Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, [1] along Oklahoma State Highway 270, near Hartsthorne. [2] It is operated by the Choctaw Nation and is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE).
Crystal Boarding School is a K-6 boarding school in Crystal, New Mexico. [29] It opened in 1935 as part of an effort to replace off-reservation Indian boarding schools with on-reservation boarding schools, as a part of the New Deal project. [11] In 2014 about 30 students boarded but most did not.
A Marquette University scholar's research for the Oklahoma Catholic Church's Native Schools Project will be published in a forthcoming new book. Years of research into Indigenous boarding schools ...
Anadarko Boarding School, Anadarko, Oklahoma, open 1911–33 [5] Arapaho Manual Labor and Boarding School, Darlington, Indian Territory, opened in 1872 and paid for by federal funds; [6] operated by the Hicksite (Liberal) Friends and Orthodox Quakers. [7] Moved to Concho Indian Boarding School in 1909. [8]
Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian residential schools, were established in the United States from the mid-17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Anglo-American culture.
The Oklahoma Catholic Church is conducting oral history interviews as part of the faith group's Native Schools Project launched in 2021.