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American Indian Boarding Schools: What Went Wrong? What Is Going Right?
Looks at the use of Indigenous led educational approaches to combat the effects of boarding and residential schools.
American Indian Education: Counternarratives in Racism, Struggle, and the Law
Beyond School Walls: Indigenous Mobility at Sherman Institute
The Boarding School as Metaphor
An overview of boarding school experiences from different perspectives.
Book Reviews
Border Crossings: The Cultural Brokerage and Artistic Practice of David Ruben Piqtoukun
The Cedar Project: Acknowledging the Pain of Our Children
Cole and Johnson's The Red Moon, 1908-1910: Reimaging African American and Native American Female Education at Hampton
Commission Process Opportunity to Move Ahead
The Construction of “Trauma” in Canadian Residential School Survivors and Impacts on Healing Interventions and Reconciliation Initiatives
The Creator's Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood
Dying to Learn: Infectious Disease and Death Among the Children in Southern Alberta's Indian Residential Schools, 1889-1920
Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue: Native American Boarding School Stories
An introduction to the articles on the legacy of boarding school and residential schools in North America.
The Educational Experience of First Nation People in the Indian Residential School System in Canada
From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
Historic Apology Lays Solid Foundation for Future
Historical Trauma in American Indian/Native Alaska Communities: A Multilevel Framework for Exploring Impacts on Individuals, Families, and Communities
Independent Commission Can't Be a Cat's-paw
Indian Boarding Schools, Before and After: A Personal Introduction
The author reflects his father's experience in the American boarding school system.
"The Light in Which We Are": Evolution of Indian Identity in the Schooling of Native Americans in the United States
Literacy Practices in a First Nations Community: Women Writing Culture
The Little Skingin That Could: An Autobiographical, Affirmative Look at Native American Off-Reservation Boarding Schools Between 1970 and 1980
Mitakuye Oyasin
Native Activist's Grandson Charged in Her Killing
Native Rights Activist Had 'Heart of a Soldier and the Soul of an Angel'
No More “Die Bread”: How Boarding Schools Impacted Native Diet and the Resurgence of Indigenous Food Sovereignty
A personal reflections on the impact of boarding school diets on Indigenous tastes and health.
On the Call for a Residential Schools National Monument
Power, Discourse and Aboriginal Healing
Problem Solver or "Evil Genius": Thomas Jesse Jones and The Problem of Indian Administration
Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression
Reexamines the ideologies of Carlisle Indian Industrial School's first superintendent and his relationships with Indigenous communities.
“Recruited to Teach the Indians”: An African American Genealogy of Navajo Nation Boarding Schools
An examination of the colonial schooling of African American and Indigenous students in America.
Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience: A Landmark Exhibit at the Heard Museum
Examines the 2000 exhibit at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
Resisting Colonialism in Nova Scotia: The Kesukwitk Mi'kmaq, Centralization, and Residential Schooling
Revisiting the Hopi Boarding School Experience at Sherman Institute and the Process of Making Research Meaningful to Community
An authors reflection on his research into the Sherman Institute boarding school.
School Days for Me and the Museum: Commentary on Remembering Our Indian School Days, a Landmark Exhibit at the Heard Museum
A personal reflection by one of the curators in charge of bringing a boarding school exhibit together.
To Win the Indian Heart: Music at Chemawa Indian School
Truth Commission 'Needs To' Hear From Churches
Turning a Page, Adding a Page in Canada's History Book
Who Gets to Tell the Stories? Carlisle Indian School: Imagining a Place of Memory Through Descendant Voices
Examines boarding school through the lenses of the student's descendants recollections of their families experiences. Through these means the stories will continued to be told once there are no more living alumni.