OWNING OUR PAST:
CHRISTIANITY AND NATIVE AMERICANS
The Legacy of Boarding Schools
Prof. Kasey Keeler, UW Madison
(Tuolumne Band Me-Wuk Indians and Citizen Potawatomi)
February 21, 2022
PRESENTER:
Kasey Keeler is an enrolled tribal citizen of the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians and is also a direct descendant of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Keeler considers herself a “suburban Indian” who was raised in the Twin Cities on Dakota homelands. Keeler completed her undergraduate degree at UW-Madison before returning to the Twin Cities to work in the Native community. After completing her PhD in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Keeler spent two years at the University of Virginia as the Native American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies. At UW-Madison, Keeler continues to focus her research and teaching on American Indian communities and histories with a particular emphasis on land, policy, housing, place/placemaking, memory, and pop culture. Keeler’s first book, American Indians and the American Dream is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press and is scheduled to come out in Fall 2022.
Recording of the ZOOM session on February 21, 2022, can be found at the following link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mn1nSBDDNluvEETcoqVaq_EvyYHhab-k/view?usp=sharing
Resources on Boarding Schools can be found at the following sites:
Unseen Tears The Native American Boarding (Residential) School Experience in Western New York Part 3:
Stolen Children | Residential School survivors speak out
Indigenous survivor describes her ‘haunting experience’ of boarding school abuse PBS
Indigenous survivor describes her ‘haunting experience’ of boarding school abuse | PBS NewsHour
Native Voices: A response to the Episcopal Church’s History with Indian Boarding Schools:
https://www.episcopalchurch.org/ministries/indigenous-ministries/
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
https://boardingschoolhealing.org/
Canadian National Boarding Student Memorial Register: Full list of names (2,800):
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/national-student-memorial-register-full-list-of-names-1.4618058
Book Recommendations:
Adams, DW. Education for Extinction – American Indians and the Board School Experiences, 1875-1928. University Press of Kansas 2020
Child, BJ. Boarding School Seasons American Indian Families 1900-1940, University of Nebraska Press, 2020
Churchill, W Kill the Indian, Save the Man – The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools. San Francisco: City Lights 2004
Lajimodiere, D.K. Stringing Rosaries: The History, The Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Board School Survivors. Fargo, ND: North Dakota University State University Press, 2019
Traffzer, C.E (Editor). Board School Blues. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2006