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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.
At least 973 Native American children died while in the U.S. government’s inhumane boarding school system as a result of abuse, disease and other factors, according to a federal report.
The book's title comes from a quote attributed to Richard Henry Pratt, an Army officer who developed the Carlisle Indian School, the first (off-reservation) Indian boarding school, from his experience in educating Native American prisoners of war. [1] Its model of cultural immersion and assimilation was adopted for use at other government schools.
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 report combined narrative with statistics to criticize the Department of Interior's (DOI) implementation of the Dawes Act and overall conditions on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. The Meriam Report was the first general study of Indian conditions since the 1850s, when the ethnologist and former US Indian Agent Henry R ...
An investigative report by the department found that at least 973 children died in these schools. The federally-run Indian boarding school system was designed to assimilate Native Americans "by ...
Even after the residential boarding school system fell out of favor politically, forced removal continued with the Indian Adoption Project from 1958-68, when up to 35% of Native children were ...
NABS has also collaborated with the National Indian Education Association to create "a 12-module curriculum" targeting the long-standing detrimental effects stemming from cultural ethnocide committed by the boarding schools. The program is geared toward Native American educators, students, and community members. [16]