Authors: The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Publication Year: June 2020

Keywords: Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP), Boarding Schools; residential schools, colonialism, historical trauma, forced assimilation, youth

Abstract:
Beginning with the Indian Civilization Act Fund of March 3, 1819 and the Peace Policy of 1869 the United States, in concert with and at the urging of several denominations of the Christian Church, adopted an Indian Boarding School Policy expressly intended to implement cultural genocide through the removal and reprogramming of American Indian and Alaska Native children to accomplish the systematic destruction of Native cultures and communities. The stated purpose of this policy was to “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.”

Learn more about the American Indian and Alaska Native boarding schools in the U.S. here.

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Type of Resource: Infographics/Fact Sheets