Articles related to "Indian Boarding Schools"

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the first Indian boarding/residential school, starts a controversial program of assimilating natives into the white man's culture

In Cumberland County, Pennsylvania is a school that changed the lives of many American Indians. Instead of learning the Indian culture the U.S. stripped the culture.

Also known as the General Allotment Act, the purpose of The Dawes Act, passed by the US Congress in 1887, was to break up reservations into individual allotments.