"A History of the American Indian Boarding Schools," Eric P. Anderson

Name: "A History of the American Indian Boarding Schools," Eric P. Anderson
Start: 2025-11-09T11:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-11-09T13:00:00-06:00
Location: 1717 W 41st St, Kansas City, MO, United States, Missouri 64111

Schedule

Sun Nov 09 2025 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

1717 W 41st St, Kansas City, MO, United States, Missouri 64111 | Kansas City, KS

Musical guest: Ben Wendt (https://www.instagram.com/benwendtisawriter/)
Community moment: David Avila
Featured presentation: "A History of the American Indian Boarding Schools," Eric P. Anderson
Renewed calls for investigations into the abuses to American Indian children have brought new scrutiny to the boarding school system. This talk will examine the thinking behind the creation of federal schools for youth, including Haskell Indian Nations University, originally known as the United States Indian Industrial Training School, and how this system affected Native communities in the short and long term. The American Indian story is one of cultural survival, but what are the next steps for reckoning with this difficult and painful part of our national history?
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