🖤🤎 The Melanation Project… *Trigger Warning* Native American boarding schools The System: From 1819–1969, U.S. policy separated Indigenous children from their families and sent them to off-reservation boarding schools to erase language and culture—the assimilation philosophy often summed up by Pratt’s line, “Kill the Indian…save the man.”  The Receipts: • The Interior Department documented 408 federal schools across 37 states/territories, with burial sites at ~53 schools (initial report).  •