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During history major Maddie Henderson's internship at the National Museum of the American Indian, she sought to learn more about the Indian boarding school era and how forced assimilation has affected the dissemination of cultural practices generations later, including within her own family.
Mary Smith Sneed was just four or five years old the day a wagon rolled up as she played outside near the family home at Mingo Falls. The wagon stoppe...
Astoria exhibit reveals cruel ‘hidden history’: boarding schools’ role in attempts to ‘civilize’ Native American children Updated 7:04 AM; Today 7:04 AM Students posing at the entrance to Chemawa Indian School in 1905. (Courtesy of Pacific University Archives)Courtesy of Pacific University Archives Facebook Share “We know what happened, what kept happening,” a reporter wrote in 1915 after a visit to the Chemawa Indian School in Salem. “We took their lands, we enslaved their women -- Oh, well, let’s forget that and remember that now for many years our Government has been me...
‘Kill the Indian, save the man’: Stories of Indian boarding schools still echo Monday, January 18, 2021 Gaylord News WASHINGTON – About 180 white tombstones – each belonging to a child who died while attending the Carlisle Indian Industrial School – stand row-by-row in the dewy grass of central Pennsylvania, bearing the names of those who died while being forced to learn the white man’s way. From 1,500 to 1,800 Native American students from Oklahoma attended the Carlisle school, said Jim Gerenscer, co-director of the Carlisle Indian School Project, a database that provides informa...
By Addison Kliewer, Miranda Mahmud and Brooklyn Wayland/Gaylord News Jan. 14, 2021 Recent arrivals at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School pose with upperclassmen. About 8,000 students attended the school before it closed in 1918. (Photo courtesy of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center) Rose White Thunder, a Sioux student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1883, was one of the only women photographed to demonstrate the transformation of Native students before and after attending the school. (Photos courtesy of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource ...