The History of Indian Boarding School: Federal Policy, Native Survival & the Legacy of Today (Via Zoom)

November 5, 9:30am-11:00am (Central Time)

$15 preregistered/prepaid.

Registration Deadline: November 3 (A Zoom link will be emailed to you on November 4.)

This lecture will discuss the history of the Indian Boarding School system that dominated U.S. federal Indian policy over the turn of the century; a policy that forced thousands of Indigenous American Children into boarding school to be “assimilated” into “American” culture. Although the policy was abandoned in the 1920s, the legacy of this for the young people who survived it lives on. Why did the federal government choose this policy? How did indigenous peoples both resist and accommodate it? What was life like in an Indian Boarding School? How do we address the pain these boarding schools caused indigenous peoples today? These are some of the questions this lecture will explore.

Jennifer Koshatka Seman, PhD, lectures in history at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado, where she teaches courses in U.S. History, Latin American History and Multicultural America. Her research focuses on how race, gender and spirituality interact between subaltern practices and institutional power. Jennifer is back by popular demand. She has previously spoken on her book entitled, Borderland Curanderos, published in 2021. Jennifer is native to Rochester, attended St. Pius Grade school, and is a graduate of Lourdes High School.

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