Holbrook Holbrook A Brief History of Native Boarding Schools B oarding schools for Native in various ways. Entire villages would in police to enforce the school policy. children began in 1860. The refuse to enroll their children in white It wasn’t until...
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Holbrook Holbrook A Brief History of Native Boarding Schools B oarding schools for Native in various ways. Entire villages would in police to enforce the school policy. children began in 1860. The refuse to enroll their children in white It wasn’t until 1978 that the Indian schools were put in place as schools. Government agents on the Child Welfare Act gave Native parents a tool to “assimilate” Native tribes reservations would, in turn, refuse or the legal right to deny their children’s A Seventh-day Adventist Boarding Academy Serving Native American Youth since 1946 into the mainstream “American way withhold rations, or they would send placement in off-reservation schools. of life.” These schools were built on A Culture in Crisis reservations, and the end goal was to eradicate all that remained of HIS Alumna Karen Gorman stands with her family. Native culture. After nearly 20 years Learning from the Past to Improve the Future of boarding schools being located on reservations, a new,
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