{"id":13760,"date":"2021-07-08T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=13760"},"modified":"2021-07-08T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:28:16","slug":"cronkite-news-indian-boarding-school-era-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/07\/08\/cronkite-news-indian-boarding-school-era-under-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronkite News: Indian boarding school era under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are federal investigations into how Native Americans were forced to assimilate into boarding schools. We talk to some about how the schools operated in…<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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Enduring trauma: Indian boarding schools will be investigated, Interior announces<\/div>\r\n
Thursday, July 8, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Emma Ascott<\/div>\r\n
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<\/P>\r\nPHOENIX \u2013 When the Phoenix Indian School was established in 1891, the top federal administrator considered it a budgetary win to send Native American children to boarding schools to enforce assimilation into white society.

<\/p>\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s cheaper to educate Indians than to kill them,\u201d Indian Commissioner Thomas Morgan<\/a> said at the opening of the school.

<\/p>\r\nThe true cost of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada, and the abuses Native Americans endured in them, continues to be revealed. With nearly 1,000 bodies in mass graves discovered this month on the grounds of Canadian boarding schools amid their ongoing investigation, and Secretary of the Interior Deb Halaand\u2019s recent pledge to investigate past abuses in the U.S., Arizona\u2019s Indigenous boarding schools will face fresh scrutiny.

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Children at Havasupai Indian School in Cataract Canyon, Arizona, in 1901. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress <\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nRosalie Talahongva, who curates the Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center<\/a>, said she and many of her Hopi relatives went to school there.

<\/p>\r\n\u201cIf you ask, was that voluntary, I would ask you, is it voluntary when there isn\u2019t any other option?\u201d Talahongva said.

<\/p>\r\nThe Phoenix Indian School closed in 1990 by order of the federal government. But a handful of Indian boarding schools remain in operation.

<\/p>\r\n\u201cLieutenant Richard Henry Pratt had a lot to do with the structure of these boarding schools,\u201d Talahongva said, referring to the founder of the influential Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. \u201cHis idea was \u2018Kill the Indian, save the man.\u2019 So the whole destruction, annihilation of Indian identity \u2013 Indian culture was to be destroyed at these federal boarding schools.

<\/p>\r\n\u201cThere were many children that were just forcibly taken away from their families and made to come to boarding school.\u201d

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