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The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), headquartered in the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., and formerly known as the Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP), is a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior under the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. It is responsible for the line direction and management of all BIE ...
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. Louis Industrial School, Pawhuska, Osage Nation, Indian Territory open 1887–1949 and operated by the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions [70] St. Mary's Boarding School, Quapaw Agency Indian Territory / Oklahoma open 1893–1927 [ 73 ]
In June 1993 it became a tribally controlled school as the Wahpeton Indian School Board, Incorporated assumed ownership of the school, and from that point forward the Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP), later called the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), began providing grants. The school received its current name in 1994.
It is estimated that there were over 350 American Indian boarding schools in operation across the United States at one time. There are still Native American boarding schools in operation through the Department of the Interior, [8] [9] but these schools are now under day-to-day management by the Bureau of Indian Education. [10]
Pierre Indian Learning Center (PILC), also known as Pierre Indian School Learning Center, is a grade 1-8 tribal boarding school in Pierre, South Dakota. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE).
Lummi Nation School (LNS) is a K-12 tribal school for the Lummi people, in unincorporated Whatcom County, Washington, with a Bellingham postal address. [1] It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). [2] It has a compact with the state of Washington and receives a grant from the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). [3]
The school is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). [1] A priest in a Jesuit order of the Catholic church established the school in 1884. [2] In 1985 there was a proposal to merge the school, then the St. Stephens Indian High School, with the Arapahoe School. [3]