The history of Native American boarding schools provides another example of the dangerous, oppressive impacts of the systematic categorization of human beings whose lives were deemed less important. The harmful impacts, including intergenerational trauma, continue today right here in Montana. We share a responsibility to become educated about this history and to be active participants in addressing its harmful impacts.
- Library of Congress Teaching Materials on Boarding Schools
- Montana PBS: Montana Boarding Schools/Home Ownership
- Virtual Exhibit: The Boarding School Era in Montana
- National Museum of the American Indian: Boarding Schools - Native Words, Native Warriors
- Montana History Portal
- Montana Mosaic: the Indian Boarding School Experience
- Montana Mosaic Resources:
- Indian Education for All Connections with the Montana Common Core Standards from the Montana Office of Public Instruction
- IEFA: The Big Picture from Montana Tribes
- Indian Education for All by Israel Tockman and Alice Tejkalova
- The Positive Impact of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Montana’s Indian Education for All by Jioanna Carjuzaa
- Recommended Materials: Boarding Schools for American Indians from American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL)
- Worlds Apart but Not Strangers Program