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TRAVERSE CITY RECORD-EAGLE Sunday, November 15, 2015SCHOOLNative American culture feels effects of boa rdi ng schools decades after system closedFROM PAGE 1ASome families, like Raphael’s, sent their children to the schools because they thought it was the only way to keep their family together. Some sent their children to the schools because they thought it was the best way to feed their families, and others sent their children so they would learn to read and write.ReconJ-Eagle file pnctoThe entrance to a 1913 addition at Holy Childhood of Jesus Christ boarding school in Harbor Springs.Photo courtesy Hank BaileyA photo from inside Holy Childhood of Jesus School, the Harbor Springs boarding school where several thousand Native American children were sent from 1829 until 1983, shortly before it was razed in 2007.Tribal children from the region for the most part were not allowed to wear their own clothes or speak their language, Anishinabemowen. Many Indian schools like Holy Childhood started as church-run mission schools designed to teach children in their own language, but their objectives changed in the late 1880s. The federal government took control of Indian education in the U.S. and the facilities shifted from mission schools to boarding schools, said Eric Hemenway, the director of archives and records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. He focused his studies on the school in Harbor-Spri ngs.Recorci-Eagle/Jan-Michaei StumpJoAnne Cook’s mother and siblings who attended Indian boarding school.“As long as the family
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