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Native America Calling: Uncovering the history of U.S. boarding schools
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
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Researchers in Nebraska have worked for years to find and organize documents from the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School.

Part of the project includes identifying students who were buried on school grounds whose records were lost over the years.

New York Times: Researchers Identify Dozens of Native Students Who Died at Nebraska School – The New York Times
New York Times: Researchers Identify Dozens of Native Students Who Died at Nebraska School – The New York Times

Using digitized records and newspaper clippings, researchers pieced together the history of the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School, a government-run institution that closed in 1934.
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As the federal government begins its scrutiny of the country’s boarding schools, Native America Calling will hear about what it takes to adequately uncover the truth about the 300 schools aimed at forced assimilation of Native children.

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