U.S. created Indian boarding schools to destroy cultures and seize land
For 150 years, U.S. policy forced Native American children into boarding schools built to eradicate their culture and assimilate them into White society.
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For 150 years, U.S. policy forced Native American children into boarding schools built to eradicate their culture and assimilate them into White society.
As many as 40,000 Native kids died while attending boarding school, and thousands of others died after going home sick.
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Records unearthed by a University of Virginia professor shed new light on states’ vocal opposition in the 1950s to tribes claiming their share of the river. Today, many are still fighting to secure water.
By Mark Olalde, ProPublica, and Anna V. Smith, High Country News ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Waiting for Water:Tribes’ Fight for a Promised Resource The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1908 that tribes with reservations have […]