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Mission School
Mission schools were Protestant ideology that was to teach Native Americans the "American way of life". They taught the "importance of private property, material wealth and nuclear families". The first mission was school was established on the Yakamah Indian reservation in 1860 -
Government Schools
The federal government’s Indian Office expanded a system of day and boarding schools for Indians, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Boarding schools provided half-day academic and half-day vocational programs with all instruction in English and were often run like military schools. Today only 7 percent of the 607,000 Native students in the United States attend federally run (BIE) day and boarding schools. Most students now attend public schools on and off Indian reservations -
Native American Boarding Schools 101
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Kill the Indian but save the man
They tried to educate the native americans to what they , the white people, believed was right and what was not. They physically brought native american children from their guardians and put them into their boarding military like schools . They prevented the Natives from being able to speak their language, and basically stop doing all the traditions that they would usually do in their culture. -
How The US Suppressed Native American Identity
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Citizenship
Native Americans were finally recognized as American Indian citizens. -
Indian New Deal
John Collier becomes Indian commissioner and oversees era of progressive reform in Indian education which begins dismantling military style boarding school and replacing it with reservation day schools which schools 2/3 of Native American students today. -
Head Start
Head Start begins -
Indian Self Determination Act
Indian Self Determination Act begins the process of turning over 180 remaining Federal controlled schools and turned them to Tribal control but with continued government funding. -
Tribal College
After high college-dropout rates for Native students, the Navajo tribal council passed a resolution founding Navajo Community College (renamed Diné College in 1977), the first tribal college. -
Language Revitalization Act
Congress passes the Native American Languages Act stating a federal policy to “preserve, protect, and promote the rights and freedoms of Native Americans to use, practice, and develop” their languages. -
No Child Left Behind
Congress passes the No Child Left Behind Act, a revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, in part to raise the relatively low academic achievement of minority students, including American Indians. Since the law's adoption, achievement has risen for every student group except American Indians.
