Native Americans

Indigenous Boarding Schools Separated Native American Children from Their Families and Forced Them to Assimilate

By Clare Amann, age 13   In 1945, at the age of 6, Bill Wright, a Patwin Indian, was sent to Stewart Indian School in Nevada. He was given a name that was different from the one chosen for him at birth and forced to assimilate to the American school system and lifestyle. He told …

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