NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SCHOOLS

MISSION SCHOOLS

• Forbidden to speak native language
• Seperated from families
• Had to give up meaningful native american names for english ones

CHARLES EASTMAN/ OHIYSEA

• Born near redwood falls
• Did not like the mission school
• Accepted to preparatory department of Beloit college in wisconsin
• Also Knox college, Kimball Union Academy, and finally Dartmouth

GOVERNMENT FUNDED SCHOOLS

• First off- reservation school was the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
• Cirriculumm was half day academics and half day vocational curriculum

CARLISLE INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL

• Was a military style school
• Uniforms for boys and dresses for girls
• Had a regular drill practice, and children were ranked

ROUGH ROCK DEMONSTRATION SCHOOL

• Opened in 1966
• Opens in the Navajo Nation in Arizona
• First indian controlled school in modern times

CITATIONS

• WWW.edweek.org/NativeAmericans/history-of-american-indian-education
• WWW.worldwisdom.com/public/authors/Charles Eastman
• Home.epix.net/~landis/history.html