In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors

From Coalition of Native and Allies: www.coalitionofnativesandallies.org

Chip Fox is an important photographer/reporter for the Inquirer and Indian Country Today and friend of CNA.  He covered the adoption story of our Native American board member Kelley Bova in the Inquirer who was adopted by a White family in 1963. In Indian Country Today he covered the story when Kelley accompanied the remains of two Native Children from the Carlisle Indian School back to her homelands in South Dakota, among other important articles for Indian Country. His latest article in Indian Country Today https://ictnews.org/news/in-the-footsteps-of-our-ancestors is a moving combination of stories from the Carlisle School and stunning photo collages that he created. He's a writer and an artist. We wanted to make sure you saw this important article.

 

 

JUST TWO OF THE IMAGES FROM THE CHIP'S ARTICLE:   Students Nancy Renville, left, and Justine LaFromboise were among six Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and Spirit Lake students, four boys and two girls, who arrived at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School on Nov. 6, 1879. The first group of students had arrived one month earlier. The four male students died at the school or soon after being returned home while ill. Amos LaFromboise (not pictured) who died 20 days after arriving at the school, was the first to die. The remains of Amos LaFromboise and Spirit Lake student Edward Upright were finally returned to their tribes in 2023, where a ceremonial fire was lit to burn during the 4 days of mourning. The background image by Charles Fox shows the fire burning at the repatriation cemetery on the Lake Traverse Reservation. Historic photos of the students are courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. (Photo illustration by Charles Fox/Special to ICT)

 

 

Native students arriving at Carlisle Indian Industrial School faced the cutting of their long hair, a disturbing cultural violation. This barber’s chair was photographed by Charles Fox at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, where it was part of an exhibit, "Away from Home," on Native boarding schools. The background photo, courtesy of the Cumberland County Historical Society, shows a group of students in March 1892. (Photo illustration by Charles Fox/Special to ICT)

 

 

"Kill the Indian, Save the Man" - Carlisle Boarding School - US History ...

 

MORE: 

Full Text and Excerpts of Pratt's "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" Speech from Dickinson College: https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/.... 

American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many - NPR: https://www.npr.org/2008/05/12/165168... 

Death By Civilization - The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/education... 

If you can take 10 minutes, this animated film (above) is a good overview of that history. There is so much information to understand, that this animated film can reinforce some of the details.

If you haven't yet called or written your congressperson to support these two bills, here it is again. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSPERSON AND SENATOR TO SUPPORT THE TWO BILLS PROPOSED BY SEC.DEB HAALAND TO INVESTIGATE AND BEGIN TO BRING HEALING TO NATIVE AMERICANS ADVERSELY TRAUMATIZED BY THE BOARDING SCHOOL ERA.

S.1723 TRUTH AND HEALING ACT

HR. 7227 TRUTH AND HEALING ACT

If you would like to be part of educating the public, please consider hosting our film NATIVE WOMEN AND ALLIES SPEAK: What You Weren't Taught in School

FILM TRAILER:   

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