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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.
Native American outing programs were associated with American Indian boarding schools in the United States. These were operated both on and off reservations, primarily from the late 19th century to World War II. [ 1 ]
Originally it was known as the Chuska Boarding School. [67] In the 1960s a new school building, a cafeteria, dormitories, and residences for employees were proposed as a way of relieving the Tohatchi Boarding School. [50] It was established circa 1965. [67] In 1973 three students ran away from the school and encountered frostbite, leading to a ...
St. Mary's Boarding School, Quapaw Agency Indian Territory/Oklahoma open 1893–1927 [73] St. Patrick's Mission and Boarding School, Anadarko, Indian Territory open 1892 [74] –1909 by the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. It was rebuilt and called the Anadarko Boarding School. [5] San Juan Boarding School, New Mexico [18]
American Indian boarding schools, boarding schools established in the United States during the late 19th century to educate Native American youths according to Euro-American standards; Canadian Indian residential school system, a system in Canada similar to the Indian school system in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries
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.
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]
This report uncovered the poor conditions in Indian Boarding schools across the country. [2] The report also states that at the time it was conducted the percent of Native American children attending schools was lower than that of white children. [10] In-between 1819 and 1969 there were over 400 boarding schools across the country. [11]