Education
Indian Boarding Schools & Current Issues in Education
Overview
What are Boarding Schools?
Boarding schools are schools where children do not live with their parents or families. Instead, they live full time in a school with other children. Indian Boarding Schools were created to separate Native American children from their Nations so that they would not learn the culture of their tribe. Instead, they would be taught English and how to live like White Americans.
What is the Bureau of Indian Education?
A department of the U.S. Government in charge of providing education to Native children. The BIE has overseen the nation’s legacy of Indian boarding schools and federally-funded schools, which now serve approximately 8% of American Indian students.
History of Boarding Schools
Scene from the movie “Into the West” showing what happened when Native Children came to Carlisle Boarding School
The experiences of other students and their families who were forced to assimilate into White culture through boarding schools
Current Issues in Education
Native American students have a hard time going to college, some programs are trying to help
Native Americans students get suspended and expelled from school more than any other group
Effects of U.S. school system on Native Youth
A Canadian teacher is trying to bring Native American culture back into the classroom
Washington state passes a law that requires schools to teach Native American culture and history