The White House said the new monument will be called the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument, and will be located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The site is where the federal government established its first off-reservation boarding school in 1879.
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President Joe Biden on Monday declared a former Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania as a national monument that memorializes the federal government’s history of separating Native American families.
The federal government attempted to integrate Native American children through Indian boarding schools from 1819 through the 1970s “by forcibly removing them from their families, communities, languages, religions and cultural beliefs,” according to the Department of the Interior. Some of the students at these schools were abused and even died.
