Boarding Schools and American Indian Dispossession

NOTE: This event is located at the Chippewa Valley Museum. Registration is required. Register here!

Discover the history of government-run indigenous boarding schools in the United States. This program looks at why native children were removed from their families, discusses boarding school experiences, and shows the lasting impact of boarding schools on indigenous communities. Free and open to the public. Attendees are invited to visit the Boarding School section of the museum's Changing Current exhibit before or after the talk.

About the Presenter

Brenda J. Child (Red Lake Ojibwe) is Northrop Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota where she received the President’s Community Engaged Scholar Award. Her award-winning book “Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940” examines boarding school experiences from the perspectives of native people. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022 for a new book about the history of American Indian marriage.

This event is part of our annual One Book, One Community program.