Staff Attorney Brett Lee Shelton presents on NARF’s boarding school work
Last week, NARF Staff Attorney Brett Lee Shelton presented on NARF’s boarding school work at the Summer Research Training Institute for American Indian and Alaska Native
NARF Staff Attorney Don Wharton presents on NARF’s work with the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition at United South and Eastern Tribes meeting
Earlier this week, NARF Staff Attorney Don Wharton presented on behalf of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition to the Social Services Committee
NARF Staff Attorney Brett Lee Shelton interviewed about NARF’s boarding school work on American Indian Living
This week NARF Staff Attorney Brett Lee Shelton and National Native American Boarding School Coalition President Denise LaJimodiere were interviewed on the radio show
Eagle Feathers at Graduation (Waln v. Dysart School District)
The Walns asked the court to declare it illegal to ban Native American graduating students from expressing their academic achievement and religious beliefs through beaded caps and eagle feathers or plumes.
Winnebago Tribe seeks justice at U.S. District Court
The history of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School represents the haunting legacy of Indian boarding schools, institutions which were weaponized against Native American children and Tribal Nations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Carlisle’s founder, General Richard Henry Pratt, characterized the mission of Indian boarding schools as being to "kill the Indian, save the man."
