The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official: "Kill the Indian and save the man." Much more than a study of federal...

Removed from her family to live in a residential school when she was eight years old, Irene Couchie Dupuis, an Anishinabe girl, was confused, frightened, and homesick, but did her best to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on a true story about the author's grandmother.

Throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me ... Some are funny. Some are painful. Some are unpleasant ... all are true.' Many remarkable things did indeed happen to Roald Dahl when he was a boy, and maybe that's where some of his marvelous ideas for his world-famous, best-selling books came from. There's the motor car ride which nearly cost him his nose, the terrifying matron who crept silently down the...

Examines the cultural genocide of Canada's First Nations people, discussing how Native children were removed from their homes and abused through forced assimilation, causing them to lose their Native identity.

Follows a group of 12-year-old boys from the most violent ghettos of Baltimore to the Baraka School, an experimental boarding school in rural Kenya, where children live by strict guidelines, yet are given the freedom to grow.

In 1864, thousands of Navajos were marched to a barren reservation in New Mexico near the Texas border called Bosque Redondo. During this long walk, many died along the way. After their relocation, the boarding school aftermath would shake the identity of the Navajo Indians.