Digital Archivist: Looking Forward to Contributing to Meaningful Change
Greetings! In October of last year, I became an import to the Midwest from Tucson, Arizona, to serve as part of the NABS team as the Director of Digital Archives.
Announcing the First Comprehensive Study on Child Removal in Native Communities
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, First Nations Repatriation Institute, and the University of Minnesota are pleased to announce the launch of our study: Child Removal in Native Communities. This is an anonymous survey about American Indian and Alaskan Native experiences and impacts of child removal to #BreakTheSilence and #BeginTheHealing. Between the 1879 […]
Announcing the 2019 Boarding School Healing Webinar Series
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) is pleased to announce the launch of our 2019 Webinar Series. The 10-episode series will educate audiences about the history and impacts of U.S. Indian boarding schools and feature positive examples of how tribal nations are healing from the ongoing legacies of the Boarding School Era. […]
Sharing Healing Resources
As an education and advocacy organization, we strive to find resources that help us understand and address historical and intergenerational trauma on a national scale and to make those available to others. However, we know that there are times when our trauma is triggered, and we need immediate assistance. To address these needs, NABS has […]
Meet the NABS Summer Intern!
We have a new member of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) Team that we’d like to introduce! Meet Emily McDonnell, the NABS Summer Intern. Emily is an enrolled member of the Navajo (Diné) Nation and was raised and educated in the reservation town of Kayenta, Arizona. Like many of her peers […]
What About the Children Buried at Carlisle Boarding School
Carlisle: The Icon of an Era In 1879 the first American Indian children arrived at Carlisle Boarding School. The school would remain open for 39 years and some 12,000 children would be sent there for forced assimilation. This was the beginning of the US Boarding School Era—the federal government’s policy of dealing with the “Indian […]
Tribes Call for Testimony on Children Who Went Missing at Boarding Schools
Respectful greetings to all Tribal Nations and allies. The Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) is working with the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) to file a submission with the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID) to call on the United States to provide a full accounting […]
