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Native Americans and the Legacy of Residential Boarding Schools: Why America Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Effort

  • Princeton University Scheide Caldwell 209 Princeton, NJ United States (map)

Join celebrated Indigenous scholar and activist, Anton Treuer, '91, for a look at the history and politics of truth and reconciliation in America with a window into the Indigenous experience. Recent revelations of mass graves for Native students at residential schools in both Canada and the United States have sparked fresh conversation on America's troubled treatment of the first Americans and need for truth, reconciliation and healing. Dr. Treuer spearheads a regional truth and reconciliation effort in Minnesota, has authored twenty books on Native American history, culture, and Indigenous language revitalization, and is deeply involved in racial equity work across the country.