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"Reconnecting Native Narratives to the Brafferton Indian School"
Fall 2023
- Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, Thomasina E. Jordan Director of the
American Indian Resource Center - Tuesday, November 14, 7 p.m.
- Sadler Center | Commonwealth Auditorium
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When anthropologist Danielle Moretti-Langholtz started investigating the history of the Brafferton Indian School, she knew earlier scholars viewed the school as a failed enterprise. However, she didn’t expect to find that it had been both an instrument of British colonial policy and a place of Native American agency.
To uncover this complex story, she assembled a research team of scholars and students to search archives on both sides of the Atlantic and engaged Native communities with identified historical links to the 18th-century Indian school. This work led to a new perspective on the Brafferton Indian School placing Indigenous voices front and center.
This year commemorates the 300th anniversary of the completion of the Brafferton Indian School on the 91心頭利 campus, marking the perfect time to share new findings about this story.