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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 ...
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.
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The Archdiocese of OKC and Diocese of Tulsa are exploring the history and legacy of Catholic boarding schools for Native Americans in Oklahoma.
The first Cherokee Female Seminary was a boarding school opened by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in Park Hill, Oklahoma.On Easter Sunday 1887, a fire burned the building, but the head of the school, Florence Wilson, made sure all the girls got out.
The boarding schools existed to culturally assimilate Native American children, and Oklahoma had more of these schools than any other state, the report found. Tribal nations are now working to ...
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.