NATIVE AMERICAN SCHOOLS

The horrific true story behind 1923's most shocking plotline: Inside real-life 'religious' boarding schools where Native Americans were 'conditioned' to be white - and where HUNDREDS died amid rampant abuse - as Yellowstone prequel brings horrors to life

The Yellowstone prequel spinoff 1923 offers an insight into one of the darkest periods of Indigenous American history, with horrific government-sanctioned abuse taking place under the guise of education and religion. 

While the plotline of the Montana-set drama might be fictional, the physical and emotional abuse that is witnessed at a Catholic boarding school for Indigenous American youth and attended by Teonna Rainwater (Aminah Nieves) is based on real-life events. 

Indeed, the U.S. Interior Department launched an in-depth investigation in 2021 to look at the troubled legacy of government and church-run boarding schools and the findings make for shocking reading.