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Starting in the 1910s, North Dakota was among a majority of states allowing sterilization, a tool of the eugenics movement.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions by Susan Burch. This event will be real-time captioned. Please join Susan Burch, director of the American Studies Program at Middlebury College, for a talk about her new book, Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). The book centers on peoples’ lived experiences inside and outside the Canton Asylum, a federal psychiatric institution created specifically to contain American Indians. After the talk, Dan Cobb o...
summary Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. Despite the long reach of institutionalization for those forcibly held at the Asylum, the tenacity of relationships ...