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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.
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 Menominee Indian boarding school, also known as Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial school, was an American Indian boarding school built on the Menominee Indian reservation in Keshena, Wisconsin in 1883. It operated until 1952. In 1899 the school consisted of 170 students and 5 staff. [1]
Crystal Boarding School is a K-6 boarding school in Crystal, New Mexico. [29] It opened in 1935 as part of an effort to replace off-reservation Indian boarding schools with on-reservation boarding schools, as a part of the New Deal project. [11] In 2014 about 30 students boarded but most did not.
The Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, was established by an act of the United States Congress in 1891. This provided funding for creation of an education system of off-reservation boarding schools and vocational training centers to educate Native American children.
Sherman Indian High School (SIHS) is an off-reservation boarding high school for Native Americans. Originally opened in 1892 as the Perris Indian School , in Perris, California , the school was relocated to Riverside, California , in 1903, under the name Sherman Institute . [ 3 ]
St. Joseph's Indian School; Santa Fe Indian School; Seneca Indian School; Sequoyah High School (Cherokee County, Oklahoma) Sherman Indian High School; Shiprock Associated Schools, Inc. St. Elizabeth's Indian School; St. Francis Indian School; Stewart Indian School
Cottonwood Day School; Cove Day School; Kin Dah Lichi'i Olta [1] Lukachukai Community School [2] Many Farms Community School (formerly Chinle Boarding School) Many Farms High School; Nazlini Community School [3] Red Rock Day School [4] Rock Point Community School; Rough Rock Community School; T'iis Nazbas Community Schools [5] Wide Ruins ...