Native American boarding schools - In the 19th and 20th centuries, the U.S. government used family separation to try to erase Native American culture.
Deb Haaland is investigating the history of hundreds of boarding schools that tried to “Kill the Indian, save the man.”
Survivors of schools in the US spoke with scholars about their experiences of cruelty, neglect, and cultural degradation.
Federal investigation seeks to uncover the painful history of Native American boarding schools; Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland
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Christopher Columbus did NOT discover America. There, I said it. The first thing we are told about our nation in our early childhood is a complete fabrication of the truth. But, that is only the beginning of the secret atrocities that shaped the nation that we know today. By Guest Writer Irwin Ozborne You can follow Irwin on Facebook via TakingTheMaskOff
School was operated by the federal government between 1884 and 1934 and was known for brutal punishments and hard labour
Thousands of Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools created to strip them of their culture. My mother was one of them.
The truth about the U.S. Indian boarding school policy has largely been written out of the history books. There were more than 523 government-funded, and often church-run, Indian Boarding schools across the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries. Indian children were forcibly abducted by government agents, sent to schools…
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"I was four years old when stolen and taken to Chemawa, Oregon. The matron grabbed me and my sister, stripped off our clothes laid us in a trough and scrubbed our genitals with lye soap, yelling at us that we were 'filthy savages, dirty.' I had to walk on my…
Opened in 1872, the Seneca Indian Boarding School taught academic and vocational skills to Native American students until it closed in 1980.
Indigenous people in Canada and the U.S. have been reckoning with the legacy of assimilationist boarding schools for years. Now non-Native people must too.
A new book by Ojibwe author Denise Lajimodiere, “Stringing Rosaries,” tells the first-person stories of life for Native American children who were sent to boarding schools designed to purge their language and culture.
The decline of Native American political autonomy was the result of increasing national authority that also changed the character of the American West.
The remains of five children who died at a Pennsylvania boarding school for Native Americans are going to be exhumed and returned to their families who have waited for their return for more than a century, the Office of Army Cemeteries (OAC) has announced.
