The Messed Up History Of Native American Boarding Schools
By Marina Manoukian/Feb. 5, 2021 3:15 pm EDT/Updated: March 8, 2021 9:43 am EDT
Although boarding schools for Native American children in the United States still exist, they re a far cry from their original iteration. The first native boarding school was opened in 1879, and for almost 100 years, they became another arena of forced assimilation and genocide.
Parents were coerced and intimidated into allowing their children to attend boarding schools, and if parents continued to refuse, children were often kidnapped. Children were hostages taken to pacify the leadership of tribes that would dare stand against U.S. expansion and Manifest Destiny.
By Miriam Kleiman | National Archives News
WASHINGTON, February 3, 2021 â The National Archives, through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), is offering a new grant program aimed at expanding cultural diversity in American history.
A recent NHPRC grant supported the CSU Japanese American History Digitization Project, which will emphasize World War II internment and postwar records. (Photo courtesy of California State University)
A $2.35 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund a new program, Start-Up Grants for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History, that will vastly expand the number and scope of digital historical records projects and provide greater online access to a wider range of minority voices. Hailed by the American Historical Association as its âGrant of the Week,â this new initiative is the largest grant in the decades-long pa
‘Kill the Indian, save the man’: Stories of Indian boarding schools still echo
Monday, January 18, 2021
Gaylord News
WASHINGTON – About 180 white tombstones – each belonging to a child who died while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School – stand row-by-row in the dewy grass of central Pennsylvania, bearing the names of those who died while being forced to learn the white man’s way.
From 1,500 to 1,800 Native American students from Oklahoma attended the Carlisle school, said Jim Gerenscer, co-director of the Carlisle Indian School Project, a database that provides information about the school and the students who attended. But some never made it back home, dying from unknown causes at Carlisle.
By Addison Kliewer, Miranda Mahmud and Brooklyn Wayland/Gaylord News
Jan. 14, 2021
Recent arrivals at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School pose with upperclassmen. About 8,000 students attended the school before it closed in 1918. (Photo courtesy of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center)
Rose White Thunder, a Sioux student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1883, was one of the only women photographed to demonstrate the transformation of Native students before and after attending the school. (Photos courtesy of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center)
Tom Torlino, a Navajo student who attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1882, poses for “before” and “after” photos, which were used to promote the boarding school to tribes around the country. (Photos courtesy of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center)
On the eve of oral arguments in the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s federal litigation against the Trump Administration’s Department of Interior earlier this year, 25 members of Congress filed an amicus