Name: A History of the American Indian Boarding Schools, Presentation by Eric P. Anderson
Start: 2025-12-17T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 242 S Santa Fe Ave, Salina, KS, United States, Kansas 67401

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

Salina Art Center will host Eric Anderson for a presentation and discussion of “A History of The American Indian Boarding Schools,” on December 17 at 6 at Salina Art Center, 242 S Santa Fe. Members of the community are invited to attend this free program!
The program is made possible by Humanities Kansas.
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?