Though we don't know how many children were taken in total, by 1900 there were 20,000 children in Indian boarding schools, and by 1925 that number had more than tripled. The stated purpose of this policy was to “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.”īetween 1869 and the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were removed from their homes and families and placed in boarding schools operated by the federal government and the churches. Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policiesīeginning with the Indian Civilization Act Fund of Maand 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.List of Indian Boarding Schools in the United States.Working for Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation for Boarding School Survivors and Descendants The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
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