Native American Boarding Schools

More than 900 Native American children died at U.S. boarding schools

A new Interior Department report reveals that 973 Native American children died at Indian boarding schools over a 150-year period of forced ...

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Working for Truth, Justice, and Healing for Indian boarding school survivors and descendants.

Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest

An award-winning site on Pacific Northwest Native Americans from the University of Washington Libraries, featuring essays for K-12, historic images, ...

Native American Boarding Schools | MNopedia

“Intermediate” students inside a classroom at a boarding school in Beaulieu, Minnesota, c.1900. Native American boarding schools, which operated ...

Native American boarding schools' painful history unearthed (Part 1)

Red Cloud Indian School was one of 408 institutions sanctioned by the U.S. government to extinguish Native American culture.

Research uncovers new details on Indigenous boarding schools - PBS

For more than a century, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools. Those schools stripped children of their ...

Forced Native American boarding school report includes 13 in ...

A federal investigation has confirmed that more than 900 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children perished in US government boarding ...

Native American children have been sent to more Indigenous ... - CNN

Native American children have attended at least 523 Indigenous boarding schools since the 19th century, including hundreds that were run by ...

A former Native American boarding school reckons with its dark past

PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D. – Inching forward on her knees, Marsha Small scraped away at the earthen floor in search of a bone, a tooth, ...

Klamath Tribes and the Boarding School Experience - Oregon.gov

Control hostile Indian tribes by placing their children in the care of the government they were fighting against. Page 5. Strategy of the. Boarding. Schools.

Legacy of Native American boarding schools comes into view ...

The list of boarding schools in the United States that once sought to “civilize” Native Americans, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians is ...

American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many - NPR

For the tens of thousands of Indians who went to boarding schools, it's largely remembered as a time of abuse and desecration of culture.

Taken: Native Boarding Schools in America - Sharon McMahon

A 9-part series that sheds light on an undertold part of American history: when native children were forcibly taken from their communities by agents.

Native American Boarding Schools

Between 1869 and the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were removed from their homes and families and placed in boarding schools.

What Native American children endured at one Missouri ... - YouTube

For the first time, the U.S. government released a report this month detailing the abuse and mistreatment of Native children who were ...

The Role American Indian Boarding School Had on the Mental Health

American Indian Boarding Schools (AIBS) were established in the late 19th century to assimilate Native American children into Euro-American culture.

Trauma and Truth: Native American Boarding Schools

Both the US government and the Catholic Church had a hand in the establishment and operation of Native American boarding schools, where, ...

Indian Boarding Schools - NICWA

The federal Indian boarding school policy is widely acknowledged to be precursor to the forced removal of Native children from their families.

Indian Boarding Schools « World Without Genocide

The goal of the boarding schools was to “civilize” Native children by erasing their Indian identity, which was considered “savagery,” and to assimilate them ...

The Legacy of American Indian Boarding Schools in the United States

By Justin Broubalow, Research Historian In May 2021, Canadian First Nation (indigenous) investigators found the remains of 215 children, some as young as ...