The Native American boarding schools / Baseball

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The Native American boarding schools run by religious orders and the federal government more than 100 years ago were designed to assimilate Indians into white America. Efforts to populate these schools ripped young children from their families and their cultures and left bitter memories of boarding schools in Native American communities. But one story of perseverance at such a school was uncovered recently by a St. Cloud State University adjunct history professor who researched a local boarding school with the nation’s pastime as a backdrop.