November 15, 2024
Panel event discussing the recent Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report Vol. II (2024)
Panel Event, Featuring:
Dr.Amanda Cheromiah (Laguna Pueblo), Dr. Royleen J. Ross (Laguna Pueblo), Maredyth Cheromiah Salazar (Laguna Pueblo), Sherilyn Analla (Laguna Pueblo/Gila River Indian Community), Dr. Darren Lone Fight (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation & Citizen Mvskoke Creek), & Dr. Eliza Yellow Bird (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation & Citizen Mvskoke Creek)
The recent Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report Vol. II (2024) notes the history of education in the United States with the American Indian/Alaska Native population has been turbulent, commencing with the formalized militaristic brick and mortar setting during the boarding school era. The prologue of western education was deliberate and methodical in that it was a form of systematic assimilation. Contemporarily, as Native People, we do not have to surrender our identities, traditions, culture or Indianness to attain an education. In fact, western education has been reconceptualized as an antidote to the trauma boarding school ancestors and elders endured. The Boarding School report (2024) notes that the target of these institutions was to dismantle the strength of Native families. The panelists will discuss the importance of family connections and how family and culture have been medicine to remedy intergenerational trauma. They will also examine impacts to their family systems in the context of a quote from the report (2024), “‘the warm reciprocal affection existing between parents and children was among the strongest characteristics of the Indian nature.’” Further, the presenters will discuss how their family, academic, and employment relationships correlate with the journeys of Carlisle Industrial Indian School students.
Further information
- Location: Stern Great Room
- Time: 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
- Cost: $0.00