Search terms on various websites and catalogs should include simply Indian boarding school and then progress to additional searches adding city, state, and specific school names.
- Links to recent articles on the horrors of the schools, deaths, burials, and other aspects.
- Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has many records and photographs from Catholic run boarding and day schools. Father Francis Paul Prucha was instrumental in obtaining many of those records. His The Churches and the Indian Schools, 1888-1912 is a great read. (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.) Methodists, Presbyterians, and other religious denominations also ran some schools.
Many of the same issues occurred in boarding schools in Canada. Canadian and U.S. newspapers and other media have carried many stories.
- An excellent site to learn more about the boarding school issues https://boardingschoolhealing.org
- CyndisList.com has a section linking to information on some of the schools https://www.cyndislist.com/schools/indian/
- Carlisle Indian Industrial School is one of the larger size schools and several websites cover its history and students.
This blog post is extra-long already and I think you now have enough ideas to continue finding books, articles, and websites.
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There is a wonderful movie that was made about this very subject called “Older than America”. It was filmed near Cloquet and stars Bradley Cooper. The film is based on a Native American women’s recollection of her boarding school during this period. It is very thought provoking and I encourage everyone to look for it, it will give you a better understanding of the horrors that took place. When the film was being made, the local tribes were initially very skeptical, but once they realized it was being told from their point of view, they all rallied and wanted to be involved. They appear in one of the last scenes of the film.
Thanks, Mary. How have I missed this one and especially since it was filmed near Cloquet.