A Massive Education Project for Native Youth
Catholic mission leaders acquire 100 acres near North Yakima for a new industrial training school.
The Catholics have bought of A. Lenoir the Inverarity tract of 100 acres, situated on the main road midway between North Yakima and the Old Town. The consideration was $6,500. Their plans embrace the expenditure of about $60,000 in building and equipping a training school for Indians, where agriculture and the trades will be taught.
“Their plans embrace the expenditure of about $60,000 in building and equipping a training school for Indians, where agriculture and the trades will be taught.”
This reflects the late 19th-century era of assimilationist boarding schools, a policy that forcibly separated Indigenous children from their families. Today, the legacy of these institutions is at the center of ongoing efforts toward historical truth-telling and Indigenous-led education in the Yakima Valley.
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