Schedule (Native American Boarding School Symposium)
Tuesday, March 24, Library 101 (4:30–6:30 p.m.)
“Sugarcane” (1 hr, 47 minutes)
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada, sparking a national outcry and setting off searches across North America. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools is coming to light.
Keynote: Brenda Child, “Boarding Schools and American Indian Dispossession”
11:40 a.m.–1 p.m.
Speaker/Lunch: Nathan Sowry, “Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures”
1:15–2:35 p.m.
Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Oral History: Lacey Kinnart and Charlee Brissette, “Carrying Their Stories: The National Oral History Project Honoring Indian Boarding School Survivors”
2:50–4 p.m.
Workshop: Farina King, “Learning and Teaching Indigenous Truthtelling of Boarding Schools”
4:30–5:50 p.m.
Keynote: Preston McBride, “Life and Death in Federal Custody: The Educational Apparatus for Native American Peoples and the Geographies of Removal and Return”
Friday, March 27, Pozycki Auditorium
Time
Presentation
10:05–11:25 a.m.
Keynote: Jessica Fremland, “Epistolary Kinship: Love, Sabotage, and Refusal in the Wahpeton Indian School”
11:40 a.m.–1 p.m.
Speaker/Lunch: David MacDonald, “Canada Confronts its History Wars”
1:15–2:35 p.m.
Elisabeth Davis, “After Carlisle: Voices of Alumni from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School” and Closing Discussion
