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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.
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]
[4] [5] [6]: 42 [7] Over the course of the system's more than hundred-year existence, around 150,000 children were placed in residential schools nationally. [8]: 2–3 By the 1930s, about 30 percent of Indigenous children were attending residential schools. [9] The number of school-related deaths remains unknown due to incomplete records.
The following is a list of schools that operated as part of the Canadian Indian residential school system. [nb 1] [1] [2] The first opened in 1828, and the last closed in 1997.
The school opened in 1889. [1] [2] In 1896, a poll found that 107 of the 264 students who had attended the school had died.[1] [2] The cancellation of holidays at the school led students to try to burn it down in 1896.
The Shubenacadie Indian Residential School operated as part of Canadian Indian residential school system in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia between 1930 and 1967. [1]: 357 It was the only one in the Maritimes. [2] The schools were funded by the federal Department of Indian Affairs.
“Agape has failed over many years to stem the tide of abuse and neglect perpetrated at their school and ensure the health and safety of their students,” the Attorney General’s new filing said.
Students pose in front of the school in 1946. Five kilometres northwest of Brandon, Manitoba, the Brandon Indian Institute was established in 1895 by the Department of Indian Affairs. The school closed in 1972. [1] From 1895 to 1925, the Mission Board of the Methodist Church initially managed the school, intended for children from north of Lake ...