Join NABS on September 25th, 2024 from 12pm-1:30pm CT for our upcoming Research Webinar: Hidden Epidemics of Indian Boarding Schools.

This webinar will explore hidden epidemics within the U.S. Indian boarding school system. This event will feature guest speaker Dr. Preston McBride (Comanche by descent), and will be moderated by NABS Research Assistant Joe Tahdooahnippah (Comanche).

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Featuring

Dr. Preston McBride

Guest Speaker

Dr. Preston McBride (Comanche by descent) lives and works on the homelands of the Tongva peoples as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Pomona College. Prior to being at Pomona, Dr. McBride earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Preston has been awarded fellowships and grants for the medical and digital humanities and Native American history at UCLA, the School for Advanced Research, the UC Humanities Research Institute, and Dartmouth College. His research focuses on health, education, and colonialism. His first book project evaluates student health, environmental conditions, and public health policies at Native American boarding schools. In doing so, it uncovers thousands of deaths from hundreds of Native American communities, ranging from Aleuts in Alaska to Abenakis in Maine and from Kumeyaays in San Diego to Seminoles in Florida.

Joe Tahdooahnippah

moderator

Joe Tahdooahnippah is an enrolled member of the Comanche (Numunu) Nation of Oklahoma, and joined the NABS team as a Research Assistant in the spring of 2023. He began his postsecondary education at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, KS and finished his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Joe was born and raised on the traditional homelands of the Dakota and has worked within the local Indigenous communities in the Twin Cities for many years.