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Going to school off the reservation

More Native Americans are leaving their reservations to attend public school
May 27, 2008

Many Native American families are deciding that off-reservation public schools are a better choice than schools on reservations. The stigma that was once attached to sending a child off the reservation — the legacy of forced boarding-school programs in the early 1900s that tried to strip Indians of their culture and language in the name of assimilation — has faded as elders who remember the old days die off.

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