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American Indian Boarding Schools, the Catholic Church, and the University of St. Thomas

Thirty students from the White Earth Reservation attending St. Benedict's Industrial School (c. 1884), St. Joseph, MN.
Courtesy of the Saint Benedict's Monastery, St. Joseph, MN.

Teach-In Tuesdays: Indian Boarding Schools, the Catholic Church, and the University of St Thomas
Presentation by Prof. Jacob Jurrs, Adj Prof of History Moderator: Prof Mike Klein, Prof of Justice and Peace Respondants: Prof Elizabeth Wikenson Prof of English and Fr Chris Collins, Vice President for Mission

Resources to explore topic further:

Indigenous Resources LibGuide
This LibGuide provides links resources to help you explore the topics related to Indigenous people in more depth.

Primary Sources

Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions
Marquette University Arcihves
Richard Pratt Papers
Yale Univerisiity
"Advantages of Mingling Indians With Whites" by Richard Pratt
From the Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities And Correction, 1892, p. 45 - 58
From Native American Assimilation to Revitalization: The Indian Industrial Schools at Saint John's and St. Benedict
This exhibit showcases ongoing work to investigate the histories of the boarding schools operated by the St. John's Abbey and Saint Benedict's Monastery and document the revitalization of Native and Indigenous culture its campuses.

Books

Stringing Rosaries by Denise Lajimodiere
Call Number: O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library E97.5 .L35 2019
Stringing Rosaries presents a brief history of the boarding school programs for Indigenous Americans, followed by sixteen interviews with boarding school survivors, and ending with the author's own healing journey with her father.
Boarding School Seasons : American Indian Families, 1900 - 1940 by Brenda J. Child
This book draws on hundreds of letters by students, parents, and school officials to explore American Indian, specifically Ojibwa, perspectives of the boarding school experience in the period from 1900-1940.
This Benevolent Experiment by Andrew Woolford
Call Number: O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library E96 .W66 2015
This Benevolent Experiment offers a multilayered, comparative analysis of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Because of differing historical, political, and structural influences, the two countries have arrived at two very different responses to the harms caused by assimilative education
Carlisle Indian Industrial School by Jacqueline Fear-Segal (Editor); Susan D. Rose (Editor)
ISBN: 9781496207692
Publication Date: 2018-11-01
The Carlisle Indian School (1879-1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school's founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man's ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles. The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom.
What Does Justice Look Like? by Waziyatawin
Call Number: O'Shaughnessy-Frey and Schoenecker Law Libraries E78.M7 W553 2008
During the past 150 years, the majority of Minnesotans have not acknowledged the immense and ongoing harms suffered by the Dakota People ever since their homelands were invaded over 200 years ago. Written by Wahpetunwan Dakota scholar and activist Waziyatawin of Pezihutazizi Otunwe, What Does Justice Look Like? offers an opportunity now and for future generations to learn the long-untold history and what it has meant for the Dakota People.

Articles

Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression
K. Tsianna Lomawima and Jeffrey Ostler, "Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression," Journal of American Indian Education 57, no 1 (Spring 2018), 79-100. https://doi.org/10.5749/jamerindieduc.57.1.0079
Journal of American Indian Education: Special Issue: Native American Boarding School Stories
Death by Civilization
Mary Annette Pember, "Death by Civilization,The Atlantic (March 8, 2019).

Websites

Boarding Schools and American Indian Education
A conversation with Brenda Child.
Native American Boarding Schools
Entry from MNopedia
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Teach-in Tuesday companion guide: American Indian Boarding Schools, the Catholic Church, and the University of St Thomas

American Indian Boarding Schools, the Catholic Church, and the University of St. Thomas

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