A new Interior Department report reveals that 973 Native American children died at Indian boarding schools over a 150-year period of forced cultural assimilation.
More than 900 Native American children died while being forced to attend Indian boarding schools, according to a new federal report that urges the U.S. government to formally apologize for the enduring trauma inflicted by its systematic effort to assimilate the children and destroy their culture.
were stripped of their names and instead often assigned numbers, their long hair was cut, and they were beaten for speaking their languages, leaving deep emotional scars on Native American families and communities. By 1900, 1 out of 5 Native American school-age children attended a boarding school. The government, the report said, should acknowledge its role in running the Indian boarding school system where many Native American children were physically, sexually and emotionally abused and hundreds died.
“Those are grandmas and grandpas that never came home,” said Nygren, whose grandmother was taken from her home on the Navajo reservation and sent nearly 700 miles away to Sherman Institute, an Indian boarding school in Riverside, Calif. “They were deported from their reservations to try to take the Indian, to try to take the Navajo, out of them. The government took these kids and they never returned to their families. It’s just devastating and it ruined 136 families.
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