'While I received an education and met all of the economic standards of your culture, I lost my family.'
“I come to you as an assimilated man, as an acculturated man. While I received an education and met all of the economic standards of your culture, I lost my family. I cannot speak my language. I cannot do the traditional fishing and gathering I learned as a child.”
The federal Indian boarding school system operated from the early 19th century until the late 1960s. During its 150 year history, the government ran 408 Native American boarding schools across 37 states, including 21 school in Alaska and 7 schools in Hawaii, according to athat marks the first official account of the history of Native boarding schools. After generations of advocacy by Indigenous people, the U.S.
At least 500 children were confirmed to have been killed at Native boarding schools, but as more research is conducted, that number is expected to increase. There are estimates thatof children died at the hands of the federal Indian boarding school system. The report also takes a closer look at the daily conditions of the schools.
The report says that schools fed children meals that were high in starch and sugar, and low in fruits and vegetables, as well as provided “poor-quality” drinking water. Child labor comprised a big part of the “curriculum,” requiring children as young as first grade to do four hours of “industrial labor” every school day. Over-crowding was such an issue that several children were often made to share a single bed and the number of bathrooms, and their cleanliness, was reportedly inadequate.
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