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35 Times the US Trampled on Native American Rights

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Jennie A. Brownscombe's "The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" from 1914. Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain.
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13. Native Children Were Forcefully Taken From Their Families

Native children at a boarding school. Kued.org.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs in the American government established boarding schools designed to civilize native children. They were forcibly taken away from their families and forced to adopt white customs. This practice did not end in the nineteenth century. Instead, with the settlement of Alaska a hundred years later, the method would continue among the Alaska Natives.

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