History of the United States II / Unit 2 USH2 0179 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Boarding Schools
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The idea
From the eighteen eighties, boarding schools such as the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania forced Native children to abandon their tribal traditions.
In practice
Children taught vocational trades and domestic science in place of their own languages and customs.
Where people slip
The federal government founded Carlisle in eighteen seventy-nine. The aim, the anchor says, was to make children embrace Euro-American social and cultural practices.
Your place on the trail
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