 During the boarding school era when it was federal Indian policy to forcibly remove Native American children from their families and send them to residential boarding schools where they were essentially whitewashed or the attempt was made to whitewash them, deny them access to their families, deny them access to their homelands, deny them the opportunities to speak their native languages, prevent them from practicing their religion, cut their hair, dress them in a white man's clothes, Christianize them, etc.,