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In August 2023, NABS released its latest research identifying 523 Indian boarding schools in the United States. This three-year project resulted in the largest known list of U.S. Indian boarding schools ever compiled to date.
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You can find information and locations for all 523 known Indian boarding schools in the United States, as well as known Indian residential schools in Canada. Learn more about NABS’s efforts to identify the 523 Indian boarding schools used in this interactive map.
National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive with Aggregated Search and Digital Map. As part of our mission to understand and address the impacts of the U.S. Indian boarding school policy and boarding school experiences, NABS seeks to locate, copy, and analyze the records of the boarding schools across the country and to make this ...
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Unspoken: America’s Native American Boarding Schools (PBS Utah) Unseen Tears: The Native American Boarding School Experience in Western New York, 2009 (Films for Action)
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez and Judith Schiess Avila Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 by David Wallace Adams They Called it Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School by K. Tsianina Lomawaima Pipestone: My Lif...
American Indian Relief Council. Native American History and Culture: Boarding Schools - American Indian Relief Council Is Now Northern Plains Reservation Aid, American Indian Relief Council, www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=airc_hist_boardingschools. Bear, Charla. “American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many.” NPR, NPR, 12 May 200...
NIBSDA features a variety of historic archival materials and other documents of historical significance related to the U.S. Indian boarding school era that include detailed documentation from Indian boarding schools, student case files, administrative records, enrollment registers, and health records.
Attendance to the boarding schools was made mandatory by the U.S. Government regardless of whether or not Indigenous families gave their consent. Upon arrival, Native children were given Anglo-American names, bathed in kerosene, given military-style clothing in exchange for their traditional clothing, and their hair would be shaved off for the ...
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Aug 30, 2023 · A map of the United States showing the more than 500 known schools of the Native American Boarding School system as dots. Almost every state contains at least one, with large...