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Phoenix Indian School opens
1891
Central Phoenix, Arizona
Tony the Marine (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A federal boarding school run on the principle of assimilation, children taken from reservations across the Southwest, hair cut, native languages punished, and half the day spent as unpaid labour. It ran for 99 years. The surviving buildings are now a park and memorial.
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