I had no idea these schools still existed in the US. Based on your comment, I looked up this article: https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/2016-02-26

I had no idea these schools still existed in the US. Based on your comment, I looked up this article: https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/2016-02-26/todays-remaining-native-american-boarding-schools-are-a-far-cry-from-their-history https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/2016-02-26/to... This particular school isn't operated by a church, but by the Bureau of Indian Education (which I also didn't know still existed) and the US Department of the Interior. Sounds like the school has evolved significantly from when it was first established in 1892: >Things have changed a lot at Sherman in Doepner’s lifetime. He says a Navajo woman who went there in the 1960s and was forbidden from speaking her language now teaches that language at Sherman. “I believe that those efforts over the past 35 or 40 years have helped transform the nature of what [Bureau of Indian Education] schools have tried to do which is to celebrate the culture of the students, of their families, of their ancestors,” Doepner says. >Some Wyoming students who’ve attended Sherman agree. “They have a beading class,” says Scottie Nez, a junior at Fort Washakie High School who spent his first two years at Sherman. “And pottery—ceramics class. They have a basket-weaving class. And they have a Navajo language class.” Of interest in relation to the original link, this school also has a dedicated cemetery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Indian_High_School#Sherman_Cemetery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Indian_High_School#She... >Because of Bureau of Indian Affairs policies, students did not return home for several years. Those who died were often buried in the school cemetery. May 3 marks an old tradition amongst the local tribes where many local reservations decorate their cemeteries with flowers and replace old crosses. Sherman Indian High School designates this as Indian Flower Day.