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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boarding And Residential Schools: Healing, Survivance And Indigenous Persistence", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Our team of Navajo and Nikkei scholars is negotiating community-accountable research design, following the interests of descendant communities near the carceral site of Old Leupp on the Navajo reservation. This former United States federal Indian boarding school and war relocation site echoes in...
A Day in the Life: Artifacts from Pipestone Indian Boarding School, Pipestone, Minnesota (2015)
Agency as reflected in the archeological record is a well-studied and disputed theme among archeologists. Broad generalizations arise from these conversations resulting in an over-simplification of the conditions under which the record was created. It is easy to paint the narrative that emerges in black and white terms. Life in the United States was rarely that simple during the Indian boarding school area. Oral histories show that employees and students alike had mixed feelings about their...
Reflecting on the Past and the Shaping of the Present at the Theodore Roosevelt School (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boarding And Residential Schools: Healing, Survivance And Indigenous Persistence", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Theodore Roosevelt Boarding School on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation was an active part of a federal policy aimed at divorcing Indigenous youth from their culture and identity. The school removed children from their families, physically disciplined them for use of the Ndee language, and...