“There were horrific things that happened at boarding schools,” said Tom Stritikus, president of Fort Lewis College. By the late 1800s, the number of students in boarding schools had risen from a handful to 24,000, and the amount appropriated had soared to $2.6 million. Richard H. Pratt, founder of one of the first boarding schools, wrote in 1892. Jacqueline Frost, 60, was raised by her Ute aunt, a matron at the boarding school who embraced the system and became its enforcer. Today, about 30 people out of a tribe of fewer than 1,500 people — only 2% — speak the Ute language fluently, said Lindsay J.

Source: bd News24 July 19, 2021 12:45 UTC