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Preferred term
boarding schools and native languages
Definition
- The history of American Indians/Alaska Natives and their experience with boarding schools is highly complex and has created a legacy that profoundly affects their lives today. It is widely recognized that an explicit mission of the boarding schools was to aggressively replace native languages and cultures with a dominant culture and language. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Boarding Schools and Native Languages]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/boarding_schools_and_native_languages
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