List of Native American boarding schools

This is an alphabetical list of Native American boarding schools. For the article about the system in the United States, see: American Indian boarding schools. For the similar system in Canada, see: Canadian Indian residential school system For other uses, see: Indian school (disambiguation).

Male students in uniform at Albuquerque Indian School (1881–1982), photographed c. 1910
Students at Washakada Indian Residential School, Elkhorn, Manitoba c. 1900
Fort Shaw Indian School Girls Basketball Team, 1904

This list is far from complete as recent reports show more than 408 American Indian Boarding Schools in the United States. Additionally, according to the Inaugural Department of the Interior Indian Boarding School report released on May 12, 2022. There were 408 schools in 37 states, and 53 unmarked/marked burial sites in the U.S. The Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo)says the former United States policies were "heartbreaking and undeniable."[1]

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