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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.
Study period at a Roman Catholic Indian Residential School in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories. The Canadian Indian residential school system [a] was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. [b] The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by various Christian churches.
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
Nearly half a dozen such schools operated in California, taking Native American children from their families and purging them of everything that made them Indian. The program officially ended in 1969.
This is an alphabetical list of Native American boarding schools. For the article about the system in the United States, see: American Indian boarding schools. For the similar system in Canada, see: Canadian Indian residential school system For other uses, see: Indian school (disambiguation). This list is far from complete as recent reports ...
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]
The founding members were Australia, Hawai'i, Alaska, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium of the United States, Canada, the Wänanga of Aotearoa (New Zealand), and Saamiland (North Norway). [72] The stated aims of WINHEC include the provision of an international forum for Indigenous peoples to pursue common goals through higher ...
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