Question

how were native parents and children impacted by the U.S Government policy of assimlitation through boarding schools?​

Answer 1

As part of this 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, and told they must abandon their way of life because it was inferior to white people’s.