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A Call to Action: Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Boarding School Records

This is a recorded version of a presentation that Christine McCleave and Rose Miron, Staff from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, did at the 2018 meeting of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. The presentation outlines the history of U.S. Indian boarding schools, the importance of understanding and sharing the […]

Transforming the Pain: A Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization

This 1996 workbook provides specific tools, guidelines, and activities for those who are impacted by vicarious traumatization (a transformation that occurs in the human body, causing someone else’s trauma that you did not experience to impact you). Vicarious traumatization occurs when you help or work with people who have been traumatized, either in your profession […]

Spiritual Leadership in Modern-Day Native American Culture and Approaches to Native American Religion and Christianity

This qualitative study focuses on the modern-day approaches to Native American religion and Christianity in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN metro area. The spiritual leaders interviewed were asked about the varieties of spirituality practices in the Native American community today, the potential conflicts or areas of compatibility among these various spiritual practices, and the role of […]

Residential school survivors, descendents, show poorer health outcomes: survey

The results from a comprehensive study showed that residential school survivors and their descendents are more likely to suffer worse health outcomes than those who did not attend or are not descended from residential school survivors. The study looked at physical and mental health, employment and income, and housing and residential school experiences. While the […]

Recounting of Sexual Torture by Priests and Nuns Spurs S.D. Bill

A proposed bill would eliminate the statute of limitations so survivors from the Indian Boarding School era in South Dakota can file a suit. Abuse was common in Native American boarding schools and survivors have often carried the trauma into adulthood which has caused issues such as substance abuse and suicide. Read Article Here Read […]

Solving the legacy of indigenous sexual abuse: think globally, act nationally

Sexual abuse was common in residential schools across Canada. As a result from the trauma experienced in residential schools, much of the trauma has spilled over into Indigenous communities. Proposed solutions for dealing with this issue include restorative justice practices. Justice Murray Sinclair, the former chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) spent 6 […]

The Apology Project by Brett and Grayson

This video shows the federal government of Canada delivering an apology for the atrocities they committed against First Nations’ children by forcibly removing them from their homes and sending them to residential schools. At these schools children suffered horrific abuse and trauma that many survivors carried into adulthood. As a result of their experiences, many […]

How does our boarding school experience affect us today?

In the beginning the author, Ivan F. Star Comes Out, tells of a conversation he overheard where a group of Native American youth conveyed they have little knowledge of boarding schools, and how this is connected to the problems plaguing Native communities today. Star Comes Out tells the story of his own boarding school experience […]

CLUES Training

The organization Partner Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) offered trainings to City staff around immigrant and refugee trauma in 2017. CLUES allowed ReCAST Minneapolis to film these courses and offer them as packaged video courses. These courses are now available online for City employees and community members! There are 6 courses in the series. To […]

American Indian Boarding Schools in the United States: A Brief History and Legacy

In this article the author initially explains what sparked her interest in researching boarding school survivor stories. She gives a detailed history of boarding schools, specifically that many children were abused, contracted diseases, and were subjected to forced assimilation. 20 boarding school survivors were interviewed and four major themes were present: 1) the participants attending […]