Revisiting One of the Oldest Orphanages, Asylums, and Indigenous Residential Boarding Schools: The Thomas Indian School at Seneca Nation

Hayden Haynes, Theresa McCarthy, Corinne Abrams, Melissa E. Lewis and Rodney C. Haring ()
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Hayden Haynes: Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center, Salamanca, NY 14779, USA
Theresa McCarthy: Indigenous Studies Department, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Corinne Abrams: Department of Indigenous Cancer Health, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA
Melissa E. Lewis: School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65201, USA
Rodney C. Haring: Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center, Salamanca, NY 14779, USA

IJERPH, 2024, vol. 21, issue 9, 1-14

Abstract: For Indigenous populations, one of the most recognized acts of historical trauma has come from boarding schools. These institutions were established by federal and state governments to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children into foreign cultures through spiritual, physical, and sexual abuse and through the destruction of critical connections to land, family, and tribal community. This literature review focuses on the impact of one of the oldest orphanages, asylums, and Indigenous residential boarding schools in the United States. The paper shares perspectives on national and international parallels of residential schools, land, truth and reconciliation, social justice, and the reconnection of resiliency-based Indigenous Knowledge towards ancestral strength, reclamation, survivorship, and cultural continuance.

Keywords: Indian boarding school; Indian residential schools; missing and murdered Indigenous women and children; historical trauma; intergenerational trauma; health disparity; strength; resiliency; survivor; Native American; First Nations; Indigenous (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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