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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.
This list is far from complete as recent reports show more than 408 American Indian Boarding Schools in the United States. Additionally, according to the Inaugural Department of the Interior Indian Boarding School report released on May 12, 2022. There were 408 schools in 37 states, and 53 unmarked/marked burial sites in the U.S.
There were ten American Indian Boarding Schools in Wisconsin that operated in the 19th and 20th centuries. The goal of the schools was to culturally assimilate Native Americans to European–American culture. This was often accomplished by force and abuse. The boarding schools were run by church, government, and private organizations. [1]
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition already had what was considered the most extensive list of boarding schools. The Minnesota-based group has spent years building its ...
At least 973 Native American children died while in the U.S. government’s inhumane boarding school system as a result of abuse, disease and other factors, according to a federal report.
An investigative report by the department found that at least 973 children died in these schools. The federally-run Indian boarding school system was designed to assimilate Native Americans "by ...
Hopevale Union Free School District (boarding ended in 2010, merged into Randolph Academy UFSD in 2011) Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School; Lewisville Female Seminary - closed 1854; Michigan School for the Blind; Native American Preparatory School (San Miguel County, New Mexico (Closed 2002) Mission Mountain School - closed 2008
Between 1819 and 1969, the federal government operated or supported 408 Native American boarding schools