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The French colony of Acadia, which at the time included part of Maine, had an Ursuline boarding school by 1639 that was geared toward the education of young girls. The school was founded in Quebec City and is still in operation today. [41] 1644: Sweden First female college students, Ursula Agricola and Maria Jonae Palmgren. [42] 1674: New Spain
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.
1884: Vernon Seminary (now Cottey College) was founded as a day and boarding school for girls. 1885: Bryn Mawr College is a Quaker college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. It was the first women's college to offer a Ph.D. It is one of the Seven Sisters.
Shawnee Boarding School, near Shawnee, Indian Territory, open 1876 [75] –1918 [76] Shawnee Boarding School, Shawnee, Oklahoma open 1923–61 [2] Sherman Indian High School, Riverside, California [19] Shiprock Boarding School, Shiprock, New Mexico [18] Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico [18]
In what may be one of the most powerful and stirring episodes of the entire run of FX’s “Reservation Dogs,” the series this week took on the horror of assimilation “Indian boarding schools ...
Located in New Orleans, it is both the oldest continuously operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States. 1742: German-speaking Moravians in Pennsylvania established the first all-girls boarding school in America, the Bethlehem Female Seminary to serve the Moravian community in and near Bethlehem. In 1863 it ...
The U.S. ran more than 400 boarding schools aimed at assimilating Native American children, and at least 973 children died at the schools.
The Hockaday School is an independent, secular, college preparatory day school for girls Pre-K through 12 located in Dallas, Texas, United States. The Hockaday School is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest .