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At the time, boarding schools were prevalent in Indian Country, as the Catholic Church and federal officials encouraged, and sometimes forced, assimilation on Indigenous peoples.
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Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
Price wasn’t one to glamorize childhood, having endured a tough upbringing that included boarding school in Switzerland.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2024
Between the early 1800s and late 1960s, nearly 1,000 Native American children died while forced to attend boarding schools set up by the U.S. government across 37 states, including Colorado, a new federal report reveals.
—Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
Advocates say many of the struggles in Indian Country, such as alcoholism, come from the intergenerational trauma of their people being oppressed over the ages through atrocities, such as genocide, loss of land, loss of culture, boarding schools and forced assimilation.
—Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
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Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
Price wasn’t one to glamorize childhood, having endured a tough upbringing that included boarding school in Switzerland.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2024
Between the early 1800s and late 1960s, nearly 1,000 Native American children died while forced to attend boarding schools set up by the U.S. government across 37 states, including Colorado, a new federal report reveals.
—Alayna Alvarez, Axios, 8 Aug. 2024
Advocates say many of the struggles in Indian Country, such as alcoholism, come from the intergenerational trauma of their people being oppressed over the ages through atrocities, such as genocide, loss of land, loss of culture, boarding schools and forced assimilation.
—Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 15 July 2024
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