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The last federally-funded residential school closed in 1997, with schools operating across most provinces and territories. [10] Over the course of the system's more than hundred-year existence, around 150,000 children were placed in residential schools nationally. [11]: 2–3
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.
In 1996, Gordon Student Residence was closed and the main building was razed, making it the last federally-funded residential school in Canada. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] (The last of all residential schools to close in Canada was Grollier Hall in 1997, which was not government-run when it closed.) [ 1 ]
The following is a list of schools that operated as part of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [nb 1] [1] [2] The first opened in 1828, and the last closed in 1997.
St. Anne’s Indian Residential School was a Canadian Indian Residential School [1] in Fort Albany, Ontario, that operated from 1902 to 1976. [2] [3] It took Cree students from the Fort Albany First Nation and area. Many students reported physical, psychological and sexual abuse, and 156 settled a lawsuit against the federal government in 2004. [4]
The U.S. and Canada are starting to face their history of forcing indigenous children into abusive boarding schools
The girls boarding school had operated in several locations across the country. It started out in the 1990s as Refuge Independent Baptist Girls Academy in Clinton, Tennessee.
“Agape has failed over many years to stem the tide of abuse and neglect perpetrated at their school and ensure the health and safety of their students,” the Attorney General’s new filing said.