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• National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

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  Based in Minneapolis, NABS seeks to lead in the pursuit of understanding and addressing the ongoing trauma resulting from the U.S. adoption and implementation of the Boarding School Policy of 1869.

• UW - Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest

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• The US at 250: A Native Perspective on boarding school remembrance day | KALW

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  On this edition of Your Call’s US at 250: A Native Perspective Series, we discuss the upcoming National Day of Remembrance for US Indian Boarding Schools on September 30.

• Above The Noise | The Lasting Impact of Native American Residential Schools | Season 6 | Episode 4 | PBS

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  Myles investigates the impact of Native American residential schools. (Note video is under 15 minutes.)

• 52 Ways to Reconcile

  How to Walk With Indigenous People on the Path to Healing

  Robertson, David, 1977-

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  A guide for non-Indigenous people eager to learn, with 52 small acts of reconciliation to consider, one per week, for an entire year.

• Medicine River

  a Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

  Pember, Mary Annette,

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  Highlighting both her mother's experience and the experiences of countless others, Pember paints a stark but hopeful portrait of communities still reckoning with the trauma caused by the state.

• Wandering Stars

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  Traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 (Colorado) and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Pennsylvania) through three generations of a family.

• Indigenous Resurgence in An Age of Reconciliation

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  Explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks.

• Stealing

  Verble, Margaret,

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  A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s.

• Call Me Indian

  From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player

  Sasakamoose, Fred, 1933-2020,

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  Sasakamoose's memoir sheds light on Canadian history and Indigenous politics, and follows his journey to reclaim pride in an identity and a heritage that had previously been used against him.

• Five Little Indians

  Good, Michelle,

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  Chronicles the desperate quest of five residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.

• Stringing Rosaries

  the History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors

  Lajimodiere, Denise K.,

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  Presents a brief history of the boarding school programs for Indigenous Americans, followed by 16 interviews with boarding school survivors, and including the author's father.

• Carlisle Indian Industrial School

  Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations

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  Interweaves the voices of students’ descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars.

• Shards of Silence

  Young, Brian Lee,

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  YA novel. When he realizes that his grandmother's fear comes from her time in residential school, Derrick understands that he must carry her story into the future.

• Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story

  Fairbanks, Ashley

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  Middle grade nonfiction. Tells the harrowing true story of boarding schools in the U.S., and the forced assimilation of Indigenous kids and families.

• Free to Fly

  Iceberg, Karina,

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  In this picture book, a grandfather shares the story of how he kept his dreams alive with thoughts of his future grandchild—who is his most precious dream of all. Includes an author's note providing historical context.

• In Our Own Words

  True Stories of Indian Boarding Schools

  McNamara, Benay,

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  Geared towards younger readers, this book is a collection of firsthand accounts of the boarding school era from children, families, and school officials.

• Stealing Little Moon

  the Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools

  Jones, Dan SaSuWeh, 1951-

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  Middle grade nonfiction. Starts with the arrival the author's grandmother (Little Moon) at Chilocco Indian Agricultural School (Oklahoma) and ends with Jones working on the maintenance crew when the school shut down nearly one hundred years later.

• The Secret Pocket

  Janicki, Peggy,

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  A nonfiction picture book telling the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food. Based on the experiences of the author's mother at Lejac Residential School (BC).

• The Witness Blanket

  Truth, Art and Reconciliation

  Newman, Carey, 1975-

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  Companion book to the artist's installation, a collection of hundreds of objects used by residential school Survivors from across Canada.