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Native American Boarding Schools
Class experience
US Grade 5 - 8
Starting in the late 1800s, the United States created an assimilation policy where they took Native American children from their families and placed them in harmful institutions called "Indian Boarding Schools", usually far away from home. Native children were treated badly and abused. Families were not allowed to see their children. Many children died in these institutions. The goal was to force Native peoples to assimilate into American society and eliminate all of their traditional...
I am a Lipan Apache woman who loves to teach about Native peoples past and present.
No outside materials for class, but I recommend these books on the subject: Uneducation Vol 1 - A Residential School Graphic Novel - by Jason Eaglespeaker. Native authored and illustrated, PG version available for all ages, uncut version for mature high school students and up. Fatty Legs - by Christy Jordan-Fenton - middle grades level story about an Inuit girl taken to boarding school, Native authored I Am Not a Number - by Jenny Kay Dupuis, Kathy Kacer, Gillian Newland, Native authored, middle grades level story about a First Nations child (Canada) taken to boarding school There are many more Native authored books on the subject for young readers. A good list can be found here: https://wowlit.org/blog/2016/08/01/native-american-childrens-books-on-indian-residential-schools/
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
This subject can be intense. While I keep the content of the class at an age appropriate level, the subject of how the children were treated in these schools can be upsetting. I don't gloss over the truth, but I am careful to teach it in a way that students can understand and process. I do address issues of physical abuse, starvation, disease, deaths, and unmarked graves. I do not address sexual abuse for this age group. I will be showing a video that is a fictional recreation of children being removed from their families and taken to boarding schools. It can be upsetting to some viewers, but it is age/grade level appropriate. It is from the TNT series Into the West.
I am Lipan Apache and a citizen of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas. I am culturally intact, learning my language, and am active in my local Native community. I am raising my two children traditionally Apache. I have noticed my whole life that...
Group Class
$15
per classMeets once
65 min
Completed by 243 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 10-15
1-9 learners per class
Financial Assistance
Tutoring
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