It Happens Here: The Roots of Racial Inequality on the North Shore
It Happens Here – Episode 11 – 90 Million Acres
In this episode of “It Happens Here,” U of MN Professor Brenda Child discusses the role that the Federal Boarding School system played in the dispossession of Native American people from their homelands. She also explains the connection between federally-run boarding schools and the establishment of government land policy toward Native American tribes as enforced by the Allotment(Dawes) Act of 1887 through the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.
To learn more on this topic we recommend the book “Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940,” Brenda Child, University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
It Happens Here: The Roots of Racial Inequality on the North Shore is supported in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
