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Yesterday, we learned about the _______ Indian Industrial Boarding School and its founder, Richard H. _______ . While the Carlisle school was the first of the Indian boarding schools, it would not be the last. Between 1869 and the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were removed from their homes and families and placed in boarding schools operated by the federal government and the churches. Though we don't know how many children were taken in total, by 1900 there were _______ children in Indian boarding schools, and by 1925 that number had more than _______ .
According to Tsianina Lomawaima, head of the American Indian Studies program at the University of Arizona, some Native American children were taken forcibly, by armed police, but that’s not the only reason why families let their children go to Indian boarding schools.
"For many communities, for a variety of reasons, federal school was the only option," she says. "Public schools were closed to Indians because of racism." At boarding schools, the curriculum focused mostly on _______ , such as carpentry for boys and housekeeping for girls, rather than math, English, or history.
