Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions (NASNTIs) are institutions other than TCUs that serve an undergraduate population that is both low income (at least 50% receiving Title IV needs-based assistance) and in which Native American students constitute at least 10% [5] (e.g., Southeastern Oklahoma State University).
In 1926, the Institute for Government Research (Brookings Institution) commissioned the Meriam Report to provide a comprehensive study of the social and economic status of Native Americans. [21] In 1928, the report concluded that the outing system had primarily become a scheme for hiring Native American children for odd jobs and domestic ...
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 program decreased in size after the 1970s, due to criticism, changing mores among Native Americans, and restriction of the program to high school students as schools improved on reservations. Many of the students and families praised the program; others criticized it and the LDS Church for weakening the Native Americans' ties to their own ...
Male students in uniform at Albuquerque Indian School (1881–1982), photographed c. 1910 Students at Washakada Indian Residential School, Elkhorn, Manitoba c. 1900 Fort Shaw Indian School Girls Basketball Team, 1904 . This is an alphabetical list of Native American boarding schools.
Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos. In some western states, notably Nevada, there are Native American areas called Indian colonies ...
Fort Lewis College (FLC) is a public liberal arts college in Durango, Colorado, and the only four-year and graduate studies institution in the Four Corners region.FLC's historical evolution spans its origins as a U.S. military fort, an Indian boarding school, and eventually a public college.
View of Haskell campus looking Northwest. Haskell Indian Nations University is a public tribal [2] land-grant university in Lawrence, Kansas, United States.Founded in 1884 as a residential boarding school for Native American children, [3] the school has developed into a university operated by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs [4] that offers both associate and baccalaureate degrees. [5]