In this video Wally teaches about Boarding Schools. The treaty obligations of 1868 required Navajo children to attend schools. The boarding schools were the only schools available at the time. In these schools Navajo children were punished for speaking their own language. This continued for a time but eventually some schools opened closer to the Navajo Nation. For the most part these closer schools were religious schools. There are closer schools now but still some of our Navajo children have to

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