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Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, c. 1900. American Indigenous boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indigenous 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.
Students from boarding schools were assigned to live with and work for European-American families, often during summers, ostensibly to learn more about English language, useful skills, and majority culture, but in reality, primarily as a source of unpaid labor. Many boarding schools continued operating into the 1960s and 1970s.
He established the Fort Wrangell Tlingit Industrial School to teach young Tlingit men various American trades, such as printing, boatbuilding, and construction from 1877 to 1907. [4] This institution was a parallel to Sheldon Jackson's Sitka Industrial Training School , which later developed as Sheldon Jackson College .
The U.S. Department of the Interior recently released the second volume of its boarding school initiative report, which documents the history of 417 federal Indian boarding schools and over 1000 ...
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition already had what was considered the most extensive list of boarding schools. The total now stands at 523 schools, with each dot on ...
The White Earth Boarding School was a Native American boarding institution located on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota.Established in 1871, it was the first of 16 such schools in the state, aiming to assimilate White Earth Nation children into Euro-American culture by eradicating their Indigenous identities, languages, and traditions.
Riverside Indian School is a Native American boarding school near Anadarko, Oklahoma. Riverside first opened its doors to Native American students in 1875 and is still open to Native American students today. Riverside Indian School is an intertribal school, meaning multiple tribes attend the school.
Nearly 1,000 Native American children died or were killed while forced to attend U.S. government-affiliated boarding schools, according to a report by the Interior Department.. Pictured above, the ...