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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.
In 1928, the report concluded that the outing system had primarily become a scheme for hiring Native American children for odd jobs and domestic service, rather than providing them with any real training. [21] Also, the report noted that Native American children often earned unfair wages in low-level positions with little oversight. [21]
Albuquerque Indian School (AIS) was a Native American boarding school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which operated from 1881 to 1981. It was one of the oldest and largest off-reservation boarding schools in the United States. [2] For most of its history it was run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
The U.S. government paid churches to run at least 210 boarding schools for Native American children, according to the new report. One-third of those schools had ties to the Catholic Church, and ...
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. “About 7,800 children from more than 140 tribes were sent to Carlisle — stolen from their families, their tribes and their homelands.
The U.S. Department of the Interior recently released the second volume of its boarding school initiative report, which documents the history of 417 federal Indian boarding schools and over 1000 ...
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 ...
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.