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Article: Boarding school abuses, human rights, and reparations.
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- Social Justice
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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DURING THE 19TH CENTURY AND INTO THE 20TH CENTURY, AMERICAN INDIAN children were forcibly abducted from their homes to attend Christian and U.S. government-run boarding schools as a matter of state policy. This system had its beginnings in the 1600s, when John Eliot erected "praying towns" for American Indians, in which he separated them out from their communities to receive Christian "civilizing" instruction. However, colonists soon concluded that such practices should be targeted toward children because they believed adults were too set in their ways to become Christianized. Jesuit priests began to develop schools for Indian children along the St. Lawrence River in the ...