Native American Boarding Schools (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulina Przystupa.

Institutions played an important part in American culture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, serving segments of society that could not take care of themselves. While asylums, orphanages, and boarding schools have come to have a negative connotation in modern American culture, these places played a formative role in the enculturation and care for multiple generations and ethnicities in the United States. Particularly, children’s homes or orphanages and Native American Boarding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily D Nisch.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Issues in Contemporary Archaeology & Historical Archaeology: Limits, Opportunities, Challenges", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. According to the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report (2022), between 1819 and 1969, 408 federal Native American boarding schools operated in 37 states. Considering the extensive spatial and temporal scale of these institutions, the amount of...