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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.
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.
When Father Belker assumed the role of administrator in January 1952, he closed the school, citing a shortage of teachers. Later he said that the Menominee no longer needed boarding schools. When the focus of boarding schools was the assimilation of Native Americans into American culture, the schools served a clear purpose.
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 ...
President Joe Biden apologized on Thursday for the U.S. government's role in running abusive Native American boarding schools for more than 150 years, marking an acknowledgement of devastation the ...
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has tallied an additional 113 schools not on the government list that were run by churches and with no evidence of federal support ...
Redlands Community College, El Reno (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) Rogers State University, Claremore (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) St. Gregory's University, Shawnee (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution) Seminole State College, Seminole (Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution)
Native American girls from the Omaha tribe at Carlisle School, Pa., ca. 1870s. Credit - Corbis via Getty Images. E ach year during Native American Heritage Month in November, school classrooms ...