Description

The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+) launched this project with Foundation support several years ago. The aim is to make information about Indigenous boarding schools available to Native people so that they may reclaim, re-write and re-interpret the stories of the schools and the students who attended them. Project leaders Eli Nelson (Mohawk) and Elizabeth Rule (Chickasaw), professors at Williams College and American University, respectively, will, in the next phase of work, build a meta-archive that organizes the diverse and dispersed information related to the Carlisle Indian School according to Indigenous questions and categories of knowledge. Funds will enable the Center to continue to support two post-doctoral fellows and an archivist assisting the project leaders.