Education and Indian Boarding School.

After the Indian wars in the late 19th century, the United States established Native American boarding schools, initially run primarily by or affiliated with Christian missionaries. At this time American society thought that Native American children needed to be acculturated to the general society. The boarding school experience often proved traumatic to Native American children, who were forbidden to speak theirnative languages, taught Christianity and denied the right to practice their native religions, and in numerous other ways forced to abandon their Native American identities and adopt European-American culture. Since the twentieth century, investigations documented cases of sexual, physical and mental abuse occurring at such schools.While problems were documented as early as the 1920s, some of the schools continued into the 1960s. Since the rise of self-determination for Native Americans, they have generally emphasized education of their children at schools near where they live. In addition, many federally recognized tribes have taken over operations of such schools and added programs of language retention and revival to strengthen their cultures. Beginning in the 1970s, tribes have also foundedcolleges at their reservations, controlled and operated by Native Americans, to educate their young for jobs as well as to pass on their cultures.

Today, there are some programs for the Native Americans , one of them is National Reliefs Charities 

Is a nonprofit dedicated to quality of life for Native Americans living on remote and poverty-stricken reservations in the plains and southwest.

 There is so important to known about the history because American Indian People suffered a lot in those years. Every country must to respect the communities because they are part of our identity, history and life, we are all equal. We have to provide opportunities for them to bring about positive changes in their communities.

If you want to know more about National Reliefs Charities you visit http://www.nrcprograms.org

This video show us some opinions and experiences from Native American people. I hope you like it! :)