For the first time in history, the Department of Interior investigated the federal Indian boarding school system across the United States, identifying more than 400 schools and over 50 burial sites.
Georgia was home to two of those schools, which were attended by Indigenous children who were taken away from their families and attempted to assimilate them through education — and, often, physical punishment. The Georgia locations were the Etowah Mission School at Cartersville and the Spring Place Moravian Mission School in Murray County.
The legacy of the federal Indian boarding school system is not new to Indigenous people. For centuries, Indigenous people across the county have experienced the loss of their culture, traditions, language and land.
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