Nevada Native American 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.

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

Last Updated: 7 years The Pipestone Indian Boarding School opened in 1893 as a sister school to Flandreau, fifteen miles to the east of Flandreau, but located within Minnesota.

Last Updated: 7 years American Indian boarding schools, which operated in Minnesota and across the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century, represent a dark chapter in U.S. history. Also called industrial schools, these institutions prepared boys for manual labor and farming, and girls for domestic work.

Last Updated: 9 years White’s Manual Labor Institute, West Branch, Iowa, open 1881–87.

There were five American Indian boarding schools in the state of New Mexico.