Away From Home: Native American Boarding School Stories
Away From Home: Native American Boarding School Stories
Beginning in the 1870s, the US government attempted to educate and assimilate American Indians into โcivilizedโ society by placing childrenโof all ages, from thousands of homes and hundreds of diverse tribesโin distant, residential boarding schools. Many were forcibly taken from their families and communities and stripped of all signs of โIndianness,โ even forbidden to speak […]