Tag: boarding school

Rector Responds to the Catholic Boarding School Proposal, 1862

October 16, 2020

In 1862 the Catholic Church of the United States made a proposal to open boarding schools to serve all of the Indian reservations primarily served by their own Catholic Missionaries. This proposal would then have the church build boarding school facilities on the reservations under their ministry and then satisfy and unmet needs of the … More Rector Responds to the Catholic Boarding School Proposal, 1862

Agent McClane struggles with Native Culture, Grand Ronde 1886

August 24, 2019

  Into the last decades of the 19th century, the Indian agents at Grand Ronde struggled with many aspects of assimilating the tribes to American culture. In fact, there was a meeting in 1871 in Salem, at the First Methodist Church with all the tribal leaders in Oregon to convince them to give up their … More Agent McClane struggles with Native Culture, Grand Ronde 1886

Enforced Assimilation in Tribal Correspondence about the Grand Ronde Boarding School

August 23, 2019

The natives at the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation underwent extreme hardships. Most of the early years they starved from lack of good effective administration by the federal employees and lack of funding from the federal government.  They had only one doctor and rare access to effective medicines. Many people died at an early age because … More Enforced Assimilation in Tribal Correspondence about the Grand Ronde Boarding School