American Indian boarding school: Media

United States history

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How Indigenous languages were lost
Native boarding schools tried to erase all traces of Indigenous culture.
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Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania,...
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An example of the forced assimilation that took place at American Indian boarding...
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A map depicting the locations of American Indian boarding schools in the United States...
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Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) boys arriving at the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle Barracks,...
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-38107)
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Students reading in a classroom at the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School in Newkirk,...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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Boys digging in a farm field at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania,...
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection/The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USZ62-55420)
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Students on review at the U.S. Indian Industrial Training School (now Haskell Indian...
J.L. Morris Collection/The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (2007663495)
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Graves of 186 Native American children who died while attending the Carlisle Indian...
Carol M. Highsmith Archive/The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-highsm- 58148)
Canadian Indian Residential School
Indigenous children holding up letters that spell out “GOODBYE” at Fort Simpson Indian...
J.F. Moran/Library and Archives Canada (PA-102575)
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