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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.
Albuquerque Indian School (New Mexico) Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Pennsylvania) Central North Carolina School for the Deaf; Chrysalis closed 2017; Élan School (Poland, Maine) - closed 2011; Hopevale Union Free School District (boarding ended in 2010, merged into Randolph Academy UFSD in 2011) Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School
“Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories” illuminates the federally run, off-reservation boarding schools that operated from the late 19th century through most of the 20th ...
It found a total of 400 boarding schools operated in 37 states between 1819-1969, and the boarding school system was paid for by selling land that was supposed to be held in trust for Native people.
At least 973 Native American children died at U.S.-funded boarding schools they were forced to attend, according to a federal report released Tuesday after a years-long investigation.. The report ...
The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, generally known as Carlisle Indian Industrial School, was the flagship Indian boarding school in the United States from its founding in 1879 through 1918.
Volume 1, officially named the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report [20] identifies 408 boarding schools and at least 53 burial sites that operated across the mainland United States, Alaska, and Hawaii over a 150-year period. The 106-page report explains the laws and policies that aided in creation of the schools, the ...