Dan Wildcat, professor at Haskell Indian Nations University, wants to honor Indian boarding school history by collecting oral histories of people living right here in Lawrence.
A service this weekend, featuring words from Congresswoman Sharice Davids, will honor Native American people who were forced to endure Indian boarding schools.
A local exhibit takes viewers through the years of Haskell Indian Nations University, from its origin in 1884 as a boarding school to its role as the sole intertribal university in the country.
Indigenous community members at a panel event Thursday discussed the history that lies below the surface of recent abortion bans including mass sterilization in the 1960s and 70s and how Indigenous people will be overwhelmingly affected by the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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