We spoke with an award-winning author of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa who has spent at least 25 years researching boarding schools. We also hear from an attorney identifying as a descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the White Earth Nation who is the first female-Native city attorney for the City of Duluth, MN Government.
The two share about their family connections to the Vermillion Lake Indian School. It was a boarding school from 1899 to 1954 located on the Bois Forte reservation in Minnesota. We discuss the importance of learning about the history of boarding schools in the United States.
The Minnesota Historical Society/Minnesota Historical Society Press recently re-published research from the author we hear from in the segment, Linda LeGarde Grover. Grover's research collection on the school is titled "From Assimilation to Termination: The Vermillion Lake Indian School". The historical society says like many other boarding schools at the time, children were not allowed to speak Anishinaabemowin, were given Euro-American clothing, and were rarely allowed to see their families, even though the school was close to their home.
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