InstitutionClaim Cited
U.S. federal Indian boarding school system
The United States used appropriations, agents, military discipline, religious contractors, compulsory removal, child labor, and standardized schooling to separate Indigenous children from their sovereign Nations and assimilate them; survivors and Nations preserved what the system targeted and now govern truth, language renewal, repatriation, and educational self-determination.
How did the United States turn education into infrastructure for dissolving Indigenous political communities, and how are sovereign Nations reclaiming education as infrastructure for their continuance?