Question

What impact did Indian schools have on Native Americans ?

Answer 1

Answer; The government paid religious orders to provide basic education to Native American children on reservations. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) founded additional boarding schools based on the assimilation model of the off-reservation Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

Answer 2

Indian Residential schools or also called Native American schools are started by Christian missionaries in the reserved areas of native tribe to provide basic education of the Euro-American culture and assimilate these tribes in Euro-American culture. The names of students were replaced by European name and they were forbidden to speak their native language. The initiative was to transform their culture and their adaptation to the Euro-American culture.