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Indian Boarding

Indian Boarding is an educational policy and institutional practice, classified within Native American Education, that specifically refers to the historical system of state- and church-run boarding schools designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-American culture by removing them from their families, communities, and languages.

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Indian Boarding School SystemNative American Boarding School System

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Publications

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Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928.

K. Tsianina Lomawaima, David W. Adams · Journal of American History · 1996 · 294 citations

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Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940

Clara Sue Kidwell, Brenda J. Child · Western Historical Quarterly · 1999 · 219 citations

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Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928

Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 1995 · 189 citations

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Domesticity in the federal Indian schools: the power of authority over mind and body

K. Tsianina Lomawaima · American Ethnologist · 1993 · 149 citations

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Away from home: American Indian boarding school experiences

Choice Reviews Online · 2001 · 135 citations

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Authors

106

  1. BJ
    Brenda J. Child

    University of Minnesota, United States

    5 publications · 398 citations

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  2. DW
    David W. Adams

    Queen's University, Canada

    3 publications · 329 citations

    3

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  3. KT
    K. Tsianina Lomawaima

    University of Arizona, United States

    3 publications · 504 citations

    3

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  4. DF
    Donal F. Lindsey

    2 publications · 33 citations

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  5. PC
    Peter Ciali

    2 publications · 49 citations

    2

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Institutions

46

  1. Native Health

    Phoenix, United States

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    409 citations

  2. University of Nebraska–Lincoln

    Lincoln, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    48 citations

  3. University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

    Oklahoma City, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    60 citations

  4. University of Oklahoma

    Norman, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    259 citations

  5. Florida Atlantic University

    Boca Raton, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    49 citations

  6. Rütgers (Germany)

    Castrop-Rauxel, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    100 citations

  7. Great Basin College

    Elko, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  8. Indian Health Service

    Bethesda, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    42 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 9 publications · 491 citations

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  2. Journal of American History

    5 publications · 534 citations

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  3. American Journal of Psychiatry

    5 publications · 116 citations

    5

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  4. Western Historical Quarterly

    4 publications · 337 citations

    4

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  5. The American Indian Quarterly

    AIQ · 4 publications · 70 citations

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