Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story

by Ashley Fairbanks

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A history of Indigenous boarding schools and cultural resilience

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A history of Indigenous boarding schools and cultural resilience

Ashley Fairbanks’s account examines the U.S. government’s use of boarding schools to separate Indigenous children from their families and suppress their languages and traditions. It places that history alongside the persistence of Indigenous communities and the testimony of survivors, connecting the schools’ purpose to broader questions about power, education, and how national history is understood. The book’s framing makes clear that education can both expand understanding and be used as an instrument of control. Its subject is a painful chapter in U.S. history, presented with attention to both the harm inflicted and the communities that endured it.

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Young readers exploring Indigenous history and U.S. history
Readers interested in the history of education and forced assimilation
Families or educators seeking material about Indigenous communities and resilience

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Indigenous historyForced assimilationBoarding schoolsEducation and powerCommunity resilience

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Book overview

Created in collaboration with Race2Dinner, here's the harrowing true story of America's history with boarding schools, and the forced assimilation of Indigenous kids and families.

Education is a powerful tool, one that allows us to better understand the world around us. But these same tools can also be used to mislead people, and to exert control with ulterior motives.

For nearly 100 years, the U.S. Government used boarding schools to remove Indigenous kids from their families and erase their traditions--to attempt to replace their culture with white, European cultures. Children were often taking by force, and were punished for speaking their native languages. The practice was not discontinued until the 1940s, and survivors of these schools have been speaking out about their experience for decades.

This painful history and the resilience of Indigenous communities who persist despite this widespread attempt at their erasure show us what the U.S. Government was willing to do to gain total power, and only by learning the true history of boarding schools can we truly understand the history of our country.

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