Symposium: Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Legacies

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Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories is the re-installation of the long-running “Boarding School Exhibit” at the Heard Museum. Since opening in 2000, Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience has become the Heard Museum’s most thematically powerful exhibition. Over the past two decades interest in American Indian boarding schools and scholarship about the subject has increased. It is a story that must continue to be shared and one that is central to remembering the nation’s past and understanding its present.

Presenters

Brenda Child, Ph. D., (Red Lake Ojibwe) professor and chair, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota

K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Ph. D., (Mvskoke/Creek nation, unenrolled) Distinguished Scholar of Indigenous Education, Center for Indian Education, and professor in the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University

Christine Diindiisi McCleave, M.A. (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) executive officer, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Jon Reyhner, Ed. D., professor, Department of Educational Specialties, Northern Arizona University

Charles M. Roessel, Ph. D., (Diné) President, Diné College

Patty Talahongva, (Hopi) curator, Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center

Louellyn White (Akwesasne Mohawk), associate professor, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Symposium Schedule

Moderated by K. Tsianina Lomawaima

Legacies of American Indian Boarding Schools

• The Boarding School as Metaphor, Brenda Child
• Places of Memory—Phoenix Indian School, Patty Talahongva
• Places of Memory—Carlisle Indian School, Louellyn White

New Directions in American Indian Education

• Understanding and addressing ongoing trauma—Christine Diindiisi McCleave
• American Indian Boarding Schools—what went wrong and what is going right, Jon Reyhner
• Self-Determination as a School Improvement Strategy, Charles M. Roessel