Episode 19: Introduction to Native American boarding schools in the U.S.
Listen to this episode here:
And here are all the links to things we discuss:
Op-Eds by descendent Lauren Peters about her experiences and reflections having her great-aunt’s remains brought home:
Guest Column: Rematriation of an ancestor – Winters Express
Events in Canada: https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012100926/graves-found-at-new-site-canadian-indigenous-group-says
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland’s statement announcing the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative.
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition map of boarding schools: List of Indian Boarding Schools in the United States
The book you should read: David Wallace Adams, Education for Extinction (2020)
Here’s where you can find and read the Annual Reports from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs available online from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Note that you can do a keyword search within individual reports. Searching for “cemetery” turns up some results, as you would imagine (or “boarding” or “Carlisle”). Again, these are rich sources of information, so our thanks to UW-M for making them available!
Tony Kornheiser quote source: “TV wizard Don Ohlmeyer, a far smarter man than I, once told me, ‘The answer to all your questions is: Money.’”
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1909, look for tables after page 78.
Tweet from National Archives in Denver with a sample document in their collections: