Houses of Horror: Native American Children at Residential Schools
The silenced history behind the horrors of residential schools for American Indian children led to a cultural genocide that still has negative effects on Native American communities. Apr 21, 2022 • By Marietta Korfiati , BA History & Archaeology, MA in-progress From the middle of the 19th century until the late 1970s, the American government decided that housing in residential schools should be compulsory. Residential schools were buildings specifically structured for Native American children. For many decades, Canada and the United States violently abducted children from their families and placed them into cold, emotionless, and abusive environments. The most famous residential schools were in Pennsylvania, Kansas, California, Oregon, and Kamloops in Canada. What resulted in this criminal legislation was the fact that Native American culture was officially treated as a terminal disease in American society. The purpose of the residential schools was to exterminat...