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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.
St. Mary's Boarding School, Quapaw Agency Indian Territory/Oklahoma open 1893–1927 [73] St. Patrick's Mission and Boarding School, Anadarko, Indian Territory open 1892 [74] –1909 by the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions. It was rebuilt and called the Anadarko Boarding School. [5] San Juan Boarding School, New Mexico [18]
A typical boarding school has several separate residential houses, either within the school grounds or in the surrounding area. A number of senior teaching staff are appointed as housemasters, housemistresses, dorm parents, prefects, or residential advisors, each of whom takes quasi-parental responsibility (in loco parentis) for anywhere from 5 to 50 students resident in their house or ...
The U.S. ran more than 400 boarding schools aimed at assimilating Native American children, and at least 973 children died at the schools.
It was the first school of its type and became a template for a network of government-backed Native American boarding schools that ultimately expanded to at least 37 states and territories.
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition already had what was considered the most extensive list of boarding schools. The Minnesota-based group has spent years building its ...
The priest did not support the boarding schools and as a result threatened to shun them from his church. [14] After a U.S. federal government inspector visited the reservation in the summer of 1876, they recommended a manual labor boarding school in Keshena, Wisconsin. The government decided to found a school to fulfill this vision: The manual ...
Crystal Boarding School is a K-6 boarding school in Crystal, New Mexico. [29] It opened in 1935 as part of an effort to replace off-reservation Indian boarding schools with on-reservation boarding schools, as a part of the New Deal project. [11] In 2014 about 30 students boarded but most did not.