On Native American Boarding Schools, Racial Bias, and Perceptions of Americanness Versus Foreignness
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Published online on January 19, 2026
Abstract
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Ahead of Print.
Between 1819 and the 1970s, the U.S. government forced Native American children to attend boarding schools with the explicit purpose of assimilating them into White American culture. In this article, we examined whether the cultural legacy of historical ...
Between 1819 and the 1970s, the U.S. government forced Native American children to attend boarding schools with the explicit purpose of assimilating them into White American culture. In this article, we examined whether the cultural legacy of historical ...