Native American Indoctrination in the American Boarding School System
Native American Indoctrination in the American Boarding School System

Summary/Abstract: The essay investigates the conception and early days of boarding schools in the United States, as well as their intended and actual effects on the Native American populace. It also strives to understand the consequences of boarding schools on enrolled students and Native American communities alike, with a particular interest in policies and practices used in such educational programs. Boarding schools served the deliberate objective to assimilate Native Americans intothe hegemonic US society, with varying degrees of antagonism. Graduates faced difficulties of returning to their own communities due to the systematic erasure of their Native cultures while being also limited by prejudice and lack of economic mobility within the wider US society.

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