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1. • • While the Native American Boarding School era has ended, the U.S. government still operates a few off-reservation boarding schools. As of 2020, 7 boarding schools continue to be federally funded, 3 of which are controlled by Indigenous community leaders.
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   What is American Indian boarding school?

   • American Indian boarding school, system of boarding schools created for Native —that is, American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian —children by the United States government and Christian churches during the 1800s and 1900s.

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   Did Native Americans go to boarding schools?

   • In the century and a half that the U.S. government ran boarding schools for Native Americans, hundreds of thousands of children were housed and educated in a network of institutions, created to “civilize the savage.” By the 1920s, one group estimates, nearly 83 percent of Native American school-age children were attending such schools.

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   How did the Indian boarding school Act affect American education?

   • The act encouraged American education to be provided to Indigenous societies and therefore enforced the “civilization process". The passing of this act eventually led to the creation of the federally funded Native American Boarding Schools and initiated the beginning of the Indian Boarding School era.

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   What happened to Indian boarding schools?

   • The federal government shut many of them down in the 1930s, and the big story of Indian education became public school education. But some of [the boarding schools] continued, actually, at the demand of the Indian families, who used them as a poverty relief program for their families to survive the Great Depression.

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   How long did the Indian boarding school era last?

   • The passing of this act eventually led to the creation of the federally funded Native American Boarding Schools and initiated the beginning of the Indian Boarding School era. The duration of this era ran from 1860 until 1978.

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   How many children died at Indian boarding schools?

   • An unknown number of children died at the Indian boarding schools. Many of them were buried in unmarked graves. After two critical government reports, most of the Indian boarding schools closed. By then, generations of Native Americans had attended. Many children and their families were left deeply scarred.

   U.S. created Indian boarding schools to destroy cultures and seize land

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3. www.theindigenousfoundation.org › articles › usThe U.S. history of Native American Boarding Schools

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   May 30, 2021 · As of 2020, 7 boarding schools continue to be federally funded, 3 of which are controlled by Indigenous community leaders. In 1934, the Indian Reorganization Act was passed to decrease U.S. federal control of Native affairs and instead allowed for Native self-determination and self-governance.

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4. apnews.com › article › indian-boarding-schools-bidenHow US boarding schools devastated Native American tribes ...

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   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.

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   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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   4 days ago · On Oct. 25, 2024, Joe Biden, the first U.S. president to formally apologize for the policy of sending Native American children to Indian boarding schools, called it one of the most “horrific ...

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    May 29, 2024 · For 150 years, U.S. policy forced Native American children into boarding schools built to eradicate their culture and assimilate them into White society.

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    6 days ago · Over the course of 150 years, from 1819 to 1969, the government funded or operated more than 400 Indigenous boarding schools. The schools were spread across 37 states or territories. Oklahoma, once Indian Territory, had the greatest number, 76. The next-highest totals were in Arizona (47) and New Mexico (43).