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09: Conquering the West
Federal Indian Boarding School Report 2022
This report shows for the first time that between 1819 and 1969, the United States operated or supported 408 boarding schools across 37 states (or then-territories), including 21 schools in Alaska and 7 schools in Hawaii. This report identifies each of those schools by name and location, some of which operated across multiple sites.
Harvard Holds Human Remains of 19 Likely Enslaved Individuals, Thousands of Native Americans, Draft Report Says | News | The Harvard Crimson
Connections of past to the present are found here in a report regarding the remains of enslaved people and Native Americans by Harvard University. This report is prompted in part by a federal law that requires the return of Native American human remains
Harvard University holds the human remains of at least 19 individuals who were likely enslaved and almost 7,000 Native Americans — collections that represent “the University’s engagement and complicity” with slavery and colonialism, according to a draft University report obtained by The Crimson.
t also urges the school to accelerate its return of Native American human remains, which has been required by federal law since 1990.
Since 1990, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has required institutions that receive federal funding to return Native American cultural items to their original owners’ descendants
“Treating the remains of all individuals as a single group for the purposes of memorialization is problematic and disrespectful,” it reads. “The University’s focus should be on restoring individuality as far as possible through provenance research to open the possibilities of engaging specific, appropriate communities to consider memorialization.”
Carlisle Indian School - Carlisle Indian School Project
Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, opened in 1879 as the first government-run boarding school for Native American children. The goal? Forced assimilation of Native children into white American society under the belief of “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.”
We aim to create a collaborative, sustainable legacy honoring the achievements, struggles, and contributions of the students who attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and to bring awareness to the general public of the far-reaching impact of the boarding school era’s goals of education and assimilation.
The Dawes Act (U.S. National Park Service)
Notice how the label "assimilation" is used to describe the purpose of Indian policy. Who at the NPS argued that "ethnic cleansing" would have been a more accurate term?
Senator Deb Fischer Highlights Chief Standing Bear Statue In U.S. Capitol - YouTube
What do Americans have to know about their past to understand their present? This question is answered in different ways by different people so students have to understand how that is done. In this two minute video, a US Senator explains how the state of Nebraska replaced its statute of William Jennings Bryan with Chief Standing Bear. He may have a statute in the capitol, but does he hold a place in the taught narrative canon of US History?
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Northern Plains History and Cultures | Resource Overview
This online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members, images, objects, and other sources to help students and teachers think about the significance that homelands, kinship systems, and nationhood hold for Native Peoples of the Northern Plains. Explore four case studies to learn more about the relationships that help to create a sense of belonging.
Buffalo Bill Digitized Advertisement
Setting students loose in this advertisement will yield things teachers can't anticipate to make a truly authentic history experience. Although Buffalo Bill was advertising his show as authentic as well - this is authentic history
Buffalo Bill’s Life Lessons - Cody Yellowstone
Interesting to pair this with other readings about Bill Cody as it does not include the killing of thousands of buffalo
THE WEST - Ken Burns
This multimedia guided tour proceeds chapter-by-chapter through each episode in the series, offering selected documentary materials, archival images and commentary, as well as links to background information and other resources of the web site
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