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Community: Boarding Schools


Anxiety

Boarding schools removed adolescents from the community and created anxiety among their parents

Both Worlds

Her mother learned to live both in the Native world and in the modern world

Dependence

Boarding schools created a cycle of dependence due to broken families

IHS in the City

The Indian Health Service was built as a primary health care system for rural, not urban area.

No Role Models

Indians who went to boarding schools have had problems because they lacked role models

Parenting Skills

The legacy of boarding schools is a lack of parenting skills in the current generation