Oregon Experience
150 years ago, one of Oregon’s first Indian boarding schools opened
By Kami Horton (OPB)
In February 1874, one of the state’s first government-funded Native American boarding schools opened on the Klamath Indian Reservation in Southern Oregon. It operated as part of a larger federal policy of forced assimilation of Indigenous people that often resulted in neglect, abuse and trauma that lingers to this day. The Klamath Agency Boarding School remained in operation until 1927 — when students set it on fire.
