Boarding Schools and Forced Assimilation investigates how colonizers used education as a tool to “assimilate” Indigenous tribes into the mainstream of the “American way of life.” Assimilate means to adopt another culture’s language, identity, way of life, and often religion. Indigenous children were sent to boarding schools that forced them to not only adopt American culture, but to abandon their customs and traditions. Children were given new Anglo-American names, they could not speak their native language, and could not practice their religion. Many children were separated from their families and communities for several years. The long-term impacts of boarding schools and forced assimilation were a loss of cultural identity, a weakening of the family unit, and the loss of Indigenous languages. These problems continue to be addressed to this day.