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May 14, 2022 · A map of Indian boarding school sites in Pennsylvania (Source: U.S. Dept. of the Interior). The department released a report on Wednesday that found from 1819 to 1969, the federal Indian boarding school system consisted of 408 federal schools across 37 states, including 21 schools in Alaska and 7 schools in Hawaii.
Oct 24, 2024 · BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden will apologize on behalf of the U.S. government Friday for its 150-year campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive Indian boarding schools. More than 900 children died at the government-funded schools, the last of which ...
May 13, 2022 · The school in Eastern Pennsylvania, where the founder vowed to “kill the Indian and save the man," forcibly enrolled more than 10,000 children from 142 Native nations over the course of 40...
Oct 24, 2024 · By the 1920s, most Indigenous school-age children — some 60,000 at one point — were attending boarding schools that were run either by the federal government or religious organizations ...
Jul 31, 2024 · By 1926, more than 80% of Indigenous school-age children—over 60,000 children—were attending boarding schools run by the federal government or by religious organizations, according to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
May 17, 2022 · A Native American historian explains why the U.S. ran Indian boarding schools, in light of an Interior Dept. report documenting 500 deaths.
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May 11, 2022 · A federal study of Native American boarding schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society has identified more than 400 such schools and more than 50 associated burial...
