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Alaska

U.S. reckons with role in Native American boarding schools | #alaska | #politics

Federal Native American boarding schools have been a largely unknown, or ignored, chapter of United States history. Many Americans have grown up not even knowing about them or learning about their history. Now the federal government is trying to change that as it revisits a dark part of the country’s history. What You Need To […]

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Exploring the history of Carlisle Indian Industrial School | #alaska | #politics

For more than a century, the federal government supported or operated hundreds of Native American boarding schools, fostering an educational system that attempted to assimilate indigenous people. The school system used militarized and identity-alteration methods, including renaming American Indian children with English names, cutting off Native American students’ hair, and discouraging American Indian, Alaska Native […]

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U.S. funded 400 schools to assimilate indigenous children | #alaska | #politics

Over a century and a half, more than 400 federal boarding schools that aimed to assimilate indigenous children operated in the United States, according to a report issued Wednesday by the Interior Department. What You Need To Know An investigative report released Wednesday by the Interior Department found that more than 400 federal boarding schools that […]