The state of Nevada plans to fully cooperate with federal efforts to investigate the history of Native American boarding schools.
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak at the Stewart Indian School on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 in Carson City, Nev. Sisolak met with tribal leaders and federal officials to discuss investigating the residential school as part of the Federal Boarding School Initiative Review.
“I can remember that my grandmother didn’t want me to come back to Stewart because she thought I would never, ever go back home again," she said in interview for a University of Nevada, Reno history initiative in 1984. “It is a tragedy that it has taken so long for the federal government to undertake an honest accounting of an immoral program that existed here for generations,” Sisolak said at the Stewart Indian School, which now houses a cultural center and museum.
Though the federal government never focused on keeping track of students, Montooth said, the fact that it took all records and archival materials when it shuttered the school in 1980 has made accounting for deaths difficult. Native children as young as 4 were forcibly taken from their families and sent to off-reservation boarding schools. Their hair was cut. They were converted to Christianity. And they were prohibited from speaking their native languages. They were often subjected to military-style discipline and, until reforms in the mid-20th century, curriculums focused heavily on vocational skills and, for girls, homemaking.
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