BOOKS

David Wallace Adams: Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928.

Brenda J. Child: Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940.

Ward Churchill: Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools.

Adam Fortunate Eagle: Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School.

Jeanne Eder & Jon Reyhner: American Indian Education: A History.

Jacqueline Fear-Segal & Susan D. Rose: Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations.

Jacqueline Fear-Segal: White Man’s Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation.

Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert: Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929.

Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, Lorene Sisquoc, & Clifford E. Trafzer: (editors): The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue: Voices and Images from Sherman Institute.

Esther Horne: Essie’s Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher.

Jean A. Keller & Clifford E. Trafzer (editors): Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences.

Denise K. Lajimodiere: Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors.

K. Tsianina Lomawaima: They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School.

K. Tsianina Lomawaima & Teresa L. McCarty: “To Remain an Indian”: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education.

Melissa D. Parkhurst: To Win the Indian Heart: Music at Chemawa Indian School.

Hayes Peter: The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School.

Kevin Whalen: Native Students at Work: American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute’s Outing Program, 1900-1945.

ARTICLES

Hymie Anisman, Amy Bombay, & Kimberly Matheson: The intergenerational effects of Indian Residential Schools: Implications for the concept of historical trauma.

Peter Ciali, Stephen Colmant, Julie Dorton, Yvette Rivera-Colmant, Rockey Robbins, & Lahoma Schultz: Constructing Meaning to the Indian Boarding School Experience.

Amanda Coletta & Michael E. Miller: Hundreds of graves found at former residential school for Indigenous children in Canada.

Andrea A. Curcio: Civil Claims for Uncivilized Acts: Filing Suit against the Government for American Indian Boarding School Abuses.

Nick Estes: The U.S. stole generations of Indigenous children to open the West: Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.

The Guardian: US to investigate ‘unspoken traumas’ of Native American boarding schools: Deb Haaland announces initiative to ‘uncover the truth’ of policies that forced Indigenous children to assimilate.

Deb Haaland:

• My grandparents were stolen from their families as children. We must learn about this history.
• Secretarial Memo: Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative.

Iris HeavyRunner: Miracle Survivor (Pisatsikamotaan): An Indigenous Theory on Educational Persistence Grounded in the Stories of Tribal College Students.

Denise K. Lajimodiere: American Indian Boarding Schools in the United States: A Brief History and Legacy.

Aislinn May: Residential school survivors need clinical and cultural care, advocates urge.

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition:

• “Kill the Indian, Save the Man:” An Introduction to the History of Boarding Schools.
• Current State of Research on US Indian Boarding School Policy.

Mary Annette Pember: Death by Civilization: Thousands of Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools created to strip them of their culture. My mother was one of them.

Mia Rabson: Residential school survivors, descendants, show poorer health outcomes: survey.

Joanna Smith: Canada’s residential schools cultural genocide, Truth and Reconciliation commission says.

Nicole Strathman: Student Snapshots: An Alternative Approach to the Visual History of American Indian Boarding Schools.

Daniella Zalcman:

• These Haunting Photos Show the Pain of Native Children Ripped From Their Parents.
• Carlisle and the Indian Boarding School Legacy in America.
• For More Than 100 Years, the U.S. Forced Navajo Students Into Western Schools.
• Pictured With Their Past, Survivors of Canada’s ‘Cultural Genocide’ Speak Out.

PODCASTS & VIDEOS

Jessica Boyd: Exploring American Indian Boarding School Experience.

The Intercept: Stealing Children to Steal the Land.

Please, Go On: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on the dark history of Indigenous boarding schools: The first Native American Cabinet secretary in U.S. history opens up about her own grandmother’s experience with family separation after announcing a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding schools.

NPR:

• American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many.
• U.S. Boarding Schools Were The Blueprint For Indigenous Family Separation In Canada.
• Discovery Of Remains At Residential Schools Prompts Calls For Indigenous Reparations.

Rich-Heape Films:Our Spirits Don’t Speak English.

Daniella Zalcman: “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”.