IN 1880s WISCONSIN, Native American children were required to attend boarding schools. They were taken from their homes, given haircuts, stripped naked (their clothes thrown into a bonfire), bathed, handed unfamiliar tools for eating, and forced to sleep in a dormitory. In the morning they were lined up and marched to school, where they were […]
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