As part of the federal push for assimilation,
boarding schools forbid Native American children from using their own languages and names, as well as from practicing their religion and culture.
They were given new Anglo-American names, clothes, and haircuts, they were told they had to abandon their way of life; it was inferior to white people’s.
Though the schools left a devastating legacy, they failed to eradicate (to remove or destroy utterly), Native American cultures as they’d hoped to.