Boarding School Era essays from South High’s All Nations ProgramSouth High teacher Laura Yost Manthey’s 9th and 10th grade students in the All Nations Program have been studying the boarding school era, including reading “The Good Path” by Thomas Peacock and Marlene Wisur, and watching the film “Where the Spirit Lives.” Below are excerpts from some of the essays the students wrote expressing their thoughts and feelings about what they learned. To read all the essays, see: www.thecirclenews.org.
By K.E. MacPhie The Imnížaská intertribal drum group is familiar with performing for and educating students about Tribal traditions and the history of drumming. They have been actively educating in schools and community groups for nearly three years as a family-based intertribal drum group. They began the group to bring families together to learn and […]
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By Bob Collins/MPR News Teresita Diaz, 17, a junior at Park Rapids Area High School in northern Minnesota, wants you to know she’s not disrespecting the flag when she sits down and quietly faces it while others recite the Pledge of Allegiance, perhaps without thinking about the words they’re saying. Diaz – part Puerto Rican, […]
American Indian boarding schools, which operated in Minnesota and across the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century, represent a dark chapter in U.S. history. Also called industrial schools, these institutions prepared boys for manual labor and farming and girls or domestic work. The boarding school, whether on or off a reservation, carried out […]
The Master of Tribal Administration and Governance (MTAG) program at UMD graduated its first cohort in 2013. Since then at least four MTAG graduates have become elected tribal officials in the Minnesota – Wisconsin region. Most recently, Jason (Jay) Schlender (MTAG ’13) and Jason Weaver (MTAG ’16) were elected to the Lac Courte Oreilles Band […]
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I was appalled after seeing ¼ of the wolf population taken out in one hunting season. I have three primary concerns in regards to the wolf issue. One is that public input was not acknowledged, two is that the DNR failed to live up to their promise as outlined in their Wolf Management Plan by […]
A unique and compelling international art exhibition that challenges contemporary stereotypes about the lives of women in the Islamic World and celebrates their artistic contribution in shaping rich, cultural heritage. Artist include: 51 women artist living in Muslim cultures in 21 different countries as diverse as Sudan, Malaysia, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, as well as Levant, […]
Many bad and horrible things happened to Native Americans during the boarding school era that caused us and them all to be very courageous. First of all, many of our people were suffering way back then, even today they are. False promises were also a problem for us, they tricked Native people to give up […]
During the late 1800’s the Native American people were taken away from their homes and sent to boarding schools. This was very dramatical. They were taken by the white people. The white people didn’t want them to be native anymore, they wanted them to be white, to dehumanize them. The Native American people have to […]
A lot of things happened to Native American people during the Boarding School era that required them to be courageous. They needed to be courageous to get through all the things they were put through. The people were suffering from many things. They were dying. Their rights were being taken away from them left and […]
Native American people had to be courageous because of the false promises the white man gave them like telling them that material possessions would lead to happiness and fulfillment. They were told to forget their own cultural ways and claim the white man ways. So I know they had to be courageous to survive. And […]
