Why One Historic Indian Boarding School is Now...Good?

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• PE

  @peacehopelovecharity · 2 years ago

  I was living in Lawrence KS  when Haskell made the transition from a junior college to a university.   One contributing factor to its "low rankings" may be it initially only offered 4 year degrees in a few education and agricultural programs.   The rankings favor schools with robust arts and sciences programs, and agricultural sciences are sometimes treated unfairly as a second class science.

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• MA

  @maakewi · 2 years ago

  Current Haskell Indian nations university student here..... I love the way they included the history of a boarding school survivor.  we have generations and generations of families that have came from this school, parents even meeting here.

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• CH

  @cherisenunez2530 · 2 years ago

  My mom was born on the &nbsp;Pine Ridge reservation in the 50s. Ok, she&apos;s my step mother but in reality she is my MOTHER and she kept me even after the divorce... So did her whole family, even though I was just this little white kid they kept me and loved me. I&apos;m beyond proud to say my mother and sisters and aunties and uncle are Oglala Sioux and that these are the humans that taught me how to be a human. <br>Europeans not only committed a tragedy against all native nations but also against themselves - just imagine what kind of world we could be living in had these cultures been learned, understood, allowed to flourish and become part and parcel of today&apos;s culture...

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• MI

  @MiguelJuanez · 2 years ago (edited)

  Years ago, I worked with AMAZING Haskell University students on sustainable community development projects cross-culturally in Mexico. Lifelong friends who have helped me uncover my Indigenous Mexican roots allowed my native pride to flourish further.

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• PH

  @phthisis · 2 years ago

  Woof. I&apos;m going to have to thank my parents for raising me in college-town hippy communities where indigenous people and minorities regularly celebrate their cultures, like the Native Nations Festival, Celtic Festival, Nikkei Matsuri, and the First Peoples Festival.

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• PI

  @piioshua · 2 years ago

  Haskell Indian Nations University &nbsp;students have a great program to take some other courses offer at neighboring Kansas University in Lawrence. And KU students also have opportunity to take courses at Haskell that aren&apos;t offered at KU.

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• WI

  @willmendoza8498 · 2 years ago

  Watching with tears in my eyes. My grandma went to one of the old style boarding schools. It was so terrible for her that I can’t even express it coherently. Thanks for shedding a light on this.

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• SA

  @Sad_Bumper_Sticker · 2 years ago

  Listening the these Indigenous Students’ Stories is heartwrenching.

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• MM

  @mmps18 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m so curious about this topic. The episodes of Reservation Dogs about the boarding schools were so powerful.

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• NE

  @nerdyrevelries422 · 2 years ago

  I feel like you could solve so many problems by paying modern Native Americans to make art pieces using traditional techniques for museums and then properly labeling them as such and giving credit to the individual who made each piece as well as that person&apos;s heritage. Because then people would still have a way of seeing this important part of American culture, but it would be grounded in the here and now. It would literally say, &quot;We&apos;re still here&quot; to anyone who views it. <br><br>Furthermore, it wouldn&apos;t be stolen. It would be bought from the people who made it and they would get to choose the content and could make it something that they are comfortable sharing with people rather than something sacred or private. <br><br>I&apos;m not Native American, but I absolutely support their artifacts being repatriated. At the same time, I think it would be sad if the main way your average white American interacted with Native American culture was through whitewashed textbooks. We should put the ability to share their history and their culture in the hands of the people who created it.

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• JA

  @JayGrrl · 2 years ago

  My family went to some of the boarding schools in Wisconsin: Hayward Indian Boarding School (Lac Courte Oreilles), St. Mary&apos;s Indian Boarding School (Bad River), and Lac du Flambeau Government Boarding School. Two of them closed after the Great Depression, but the latter, Lac du Flambeau, at least rebranded with government funding from the BIA in 1975 for cultural and language restoration (I even remember going to my first Ojibwe language classes out there with the AODA program as a young one.) Now, I teach at one of the handful of Indigenous Alternative Education schools in the Nation, started by AIM, making sure the language is taught to our young ones.

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• KA

  @kariannecrysler · 2 years ago

  More please!!! These are the truth &amp; that is what everyone needs now…. Actuality. The only way to atone for mistakes is to fully admit them imo.

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