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Boarding Schools (5 resources)

Keynote: Reclaiming Education Sovereignty

Keynote: Reclaiming Education Sovereignty

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Remarks by US Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Bryan Newland highlight the connection between boarding school research conducted by the Bureau and the efforts to support language and cultural revitalization in Indian Country today.

Healing Soul Wounds: Grappling with the Indian Boarding School Era

Healing Soul Wounds: Grappling with the Indian Boarding School Era

Blog

During an internship at NMAI, history major Maddie Henderson sought to learn more about the Indian boarding school era and how forced assimilation has affected cultural practices generations later, including within her own family.

Apologies are Not Enough

Apologies are Not Enough

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Action is needed to heal government boarding school survivors.

Struggling with Cultural Repression

Struggling with Cultural Repression

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This chapter of Native Words, Native Warriors, an online lesson about the Code Talkers of World Wars I and II, explores how government- and church-operated boarding schools suppressed the languages, cultures, and identities of American Indian children.

Inuit Women's Survival Skills, Which Kept Arctic Explorers Alive, Help Heal Residential School Survivors

Inuit Women's Survival Skills, Which Kept Arctic Explorers Alive, Help Heal Residential School Survivors

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Four Intuit women work to help museums conserve Inuit collections and to help Inuit women heal from the deep-rooted scars left from attending Indian Residential Schools.

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