Colorado Native American Boarding Schools

Last Updated: 7 years As the banished Minnesota Dakota people gathered in their new home in South Dakota, they expressed an interest in the establishment of a school. This desire was also corroborated by the non-Indian residents of Flandreau, South Dakota, who were equally anxious to have a government boarding school built near their town….

Last Updated: 9 years Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, 1893–1934.  

Last Updated: 9 years Asbury Manual Labor School, near Fort Mitchell, Alabama open 1822–30, run by the United Methodist Missions.  

Last Updated: 9 years Hampton Institute, began accepting Native students in 1878.

The first Indian Territory Boarding Schools opened in 1872, and some are still in operation at present. Learn about the history of American Indian boarding schools.

The Tohono O’odham children were required to attend Indian boarding schools, designed to teach them the English language and assimilate them to the mainstream European-American ways. According to historian David Leighton, of the Arizona Daily Star newspaper, the boarding school the Tohono O’odham attended was the Tucson Indian School.