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Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story

Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story

Fairbanks, Ashley

Hardcover

Series: Race to the Truth

General Juvenile NonfictionHistorySelf Help

ISBN10: 0593811402
ISBN13: 9780593811405
Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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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