Washington, Dec 22, 2024 (AFP) - At least 3,100 Native Americans died in US boarding schools: report

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2024-12-22

The number of Native Americans who died in US boarding schools is at least triple the official government figure, the Washington Post reported Sunday. From 1819 until the 1970s, the United States ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to involuntarily assimilate Native children into European settler culture, including forced conversion to Christianity. An investigation by the Post documented 3,104 Indigenous students who died......

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