Samuel Torres invited those listening to his keynote talk on the history of Native American boarding schools during the second full day of the 84th annual Tekakwitha Conference in Bloomington “to widen the circle.”
‘Kids Were Marched Everywhere. This was a Concentration Camp.’. In 1819, the federal government instituted a program of state-sponsored abductions and forced assimilation of Native American children. It lasted 150 years and spawned a legacy of horrific abuse. Now.
Discover how the U.S. government is working to acknowledge and address the dark history of Native American boarding schools by documenting survivors' and descendants' oral histories.
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