Professor Sasha Maria Suarez is a direct descendant of the White Earth Ojibwe Nation and an assistant professor of History and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She researches and writes from home, exploring how urban White Earth Ojibwe women's community organizing was essential to the strength of Minneapolis' urban Indigenous community and how they upheld Ojibwe identities in urban spaces through practices of home, family, and community. She is currently working on her first book, Making a Home in the City: White Earth Ojibwe Women and Community Organizing in Twentieth Century Minneapolis. Her work has appeared in the edited volume, Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization, and on UHA's The Metropole and BELT Magazine.

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Eric P. Anderson holds a doctorate in American History from the University of Kansas, specializing in American Indian cultures and the history of the United States West. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and teaches at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. His major research focus is on American Indian education, especially the system of federal boarding schools established for Native youth in the late nineteenth century. He is currently at work on a book about the history of Haskell Institute, as well as textbook projects in American Indian Studies and Native history.

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Hosted by Joshua Bulavko, currently a student in the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Kansas, the Boarding School Oral History Podcast (BSOHP) is a research project focused on reckoning with the experiences of survivors, descendants, public officials, and tribal communities with the systematic efforts of assimilation in the United States. In 2021, the Department of the Interior, under the direction of Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), released the “Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report.” Within this report, the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Bryan Newland (Ojibwe), details the “systematic identity-alteration methodologies” used by the federal government and religious institutions during the 19th and 20th centuries. Many Native children of sovereign tribal nations were often misled or ripped away from their families. They were then placed in off-reservation schools, such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, out of an apparent interest in solving the so-called “Indian problem.” The history of American Indian boarding schools remains uncomfortable, yet important, to discuss so our society never repeats similar atrocities.

This podcast is for Indigenous and non-Indigenous audiences alike. It seeks to center on respect for tribal sovereignty, oral histories, and the needs of Indigenous communities. To ensure continued learning, all listeners should respect the experiences shared by guests. Please take care of yourself and one another.

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