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Male students in uniform at Albuquerque Indian School (1881–1982), photographed c. 1910 Students at Washakada Indian Residential School, Elkhorn, Manitoba c. 1900 Fort Shaw Indian School Girls Basketball Team, 1904 . This is an alphabetical list of Native American boarding schools.
El Reno High School, El Reno, Oklahoma – There was discussion about the name when a Native American student was not allowed to wear a beaded mortarboard at graduation. [156] The result was the signing of a Spirit Charter with the Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes to retain the name while agreeing to avoid any derogatory or disrespectful Native ...
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 recognition of the responsibility of higher education to eliminate behaviors that creates a hostile environment for education, in 2005 the NCAA initiated a policy against "hostile and abusive" names and mascots that led to the change of many derived from Native American culture, with the exception of those that established an agreement with ...
Native American girls from the Omaha tribe at Carlisle School, Pa., ca. 1870s. ... which documents the history of 417 federal Indian boarding schools and over 1000 other similar institutions used ...
Alumni of Native American boarding schools (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Native American boarding schools" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total.
Schools across New York State have been given an ultimatum to stop using Native American names as school mascots, or face losing funding.
The following is a list of Bureau of Indian Education and Tribally Controlled Schools in Arizona ... Second Mesa Day School [19] Shonto Preparatory School; Pima County