I was living in Lawrence KS when Haskell made the transition from a junior college to a university. One contributing factor to its "low rankings" may be it initially only offered 4 year degrees in a few education and agricultural programs. The rankings favor schools with robust arts and sciences programs, and agricultural sciences are sometimes treated unfairly as a second class science.

My mom was born on the Pine Ridge reservation in the 50s. Ok, she's my step mother but in reality she is my MOTHER and she kept me even after the divorce... So did her whole family, even though I was just this little white kid they kept me and loved me. I'm beyond proud to say my mother and sisters and aunties and uncle are Oglala Sioux and that these are the humans that taught me how to be a human. Europeans not only committed a tragedy against all native nations but also against themselves - just imagine what kind of world we could be living in had these cultures been learned, understood, allowed to flourish and become part and parcel of today's culture...

Woof. I'm going to have to thank my parents for raising me in college-town hippy communities where indigenous people and minorities regularly celebrate their cultures, like the Native Nations Festival, Celtic Festival, Nikkei Matsuri, and the First Peoples Festival.

Years ago, I worked with AMAZING Haskell University students on sustainable community development projects cross-culturally in Mexico. Lifelong friends who have helped me uncover my Indigenous Mexican roots allowed my native pride to flourish further.

Current Haskell Indian nations university student here..... I love the way they included the history of a boarding school survivor. we have generations and generations of families that have came from this school, parents even meeting here.

I feel like you could solve so many problems by paying modern Native Americans to make art pieces using traditional techniques for museums and then properly labeling them as such and giving credit to the individual who made each piece as well as that person's heritage. Because then people would still have a way of seeing this important part of American culture, but it would be grounded in the here and now. It would literally say, "We're still here" to anyone who views it. Furthermore, it wouldn't be stolen. It would be bought from the people who made it and they would get to choose the content and could make it something that they are comfortable sharing with people rather than something sacred or private. I'm not Native American, but I absolutely support their artifacts being repatriated. At the same time, I think it would be sad if the main way your average white American interacted with Native American culture was through whitewashed textbooks. We should put the ability to share their history and their culture in the hands of the people who created it.

I'm so curious about this topic. The episodes of Reservation Dogs about the boarding schools were so powerful.

Watching with tears in my eyes. My grandma went to one of the old style boarding schools. It was so terrible for her that I can’t even express it coherently. Thanks for shedding a light on this.

Haskell Indian Nations University students have a great program to take some other courses offer at neighboring Kansas University in Lawrence. And KU students also have opportunity to take courses at Haskell that aren't offered at KU.

I am not native american. I support the return of artifacts and the dead that are being paraded about as trophies as if they are from a long dead burried peoples back to where those people still live or whatever they wish done. I wouldl ike some exhibits to remain, or t obe created to educate but at the same time you are correct in that there is this perception and portrayal that native peoples are culturally if not ethnically... dead. 'We' (the US government) broke faith and treaty wit hthe native peoples time and time again. There needs to be a redress. This isn't 'Hey everyone who is on paper native american gets money' that is an empty gesture that does nothing but give conservitives a club to beat people with. There needs to be systimic change so that natives are given a fair seat at the table so their voice is heard where and how it matters most. We've taken too much already, and even giving (what i consider an impossibility given the pushback) full voting rights, or enlarging and assisting in making the reservations more.... None of that will undo what has been done, but at this point doing more than just empty hand wringing would be nice. "We The People' .... Well, you guys were here first. You are part of that 'We' and the rest of us should acknowledge that.

I'm sorry did he say 40% of people don't know Native people still exist???? How tf 💀

Listening the these Indigenous Students’ Stories is heartwrenching.

I have two cousins from Pine Ridge rez who attend there now and many family members who have graduated from Haskell.

My family went to some of the boarding schools in Wisconsin: Hayward Indian Boarding School (Lac Courte Oreilles), St. Mary's Indian Boarding School (Bad River), and Lac du Flambeau Government Boarding School. Two of them closed after the Great Depression, but the latter, Lac du Flambeau, at least rebranded with government funding from the BIA in 1975 for cultural and language restoration (I even remember going to my first Ojibwe language classes out there with the AODA program as a young one.) Now, I teach at one of the handful of Indigenous Alternative Education schools in the Nation, started by AIM, making sure the language is taught to our young ones.

I worked with Sherman Indian High School in Southern California last semester as an intern. Really eye opening experience in a place with an obviously very complicated history. I loved the students there!

More please!!! These are the truth & that is what everyone needs now…. Actuality. The only way to atone for mistakes is to fully admit them imo.

Thank you for teaching me what my school wouldn’t.

While living in Lawrence KS, I greatly enjoyed the big powwow and art fair every August. It showcased amazing dancers, music, and arts. It shared native talents with the community.

These were not "boarding schools," they were internment centers. For children. A disgraceful portion of Euro-American history. We must do better.

Thank you to making this series of videos. They are well done.

I just stumbled on these & I don't even live in America. I hope more people see this and it reaches more Americans too

I'm so glad you posted this video. A lot of us have heard of the boarding schools but we might not know all the details, or the larger context. Content like this probably helps more than you know.

Thankyou for this. I'm in Australia, and I sense echoes in the story of our First Nation Peoples, to those of the Americas. I wish we had a similar resource as you've made for Australia's First People's culture, and the impact of white colonisers, historical and ongoing.

Went to the Autry Museum's exhibit on Sherman Indian School a few months ago. It was created in conjunction with the current school administration and it's graduates and it's amazingly informative (I believe it'll be there until May if anyone coming to LA wants to check it out)

Sherman Indian High School, which was a historical Native American boarding school, has a native mascot as well.

I have gone to a museum that has Native American artifacts displayed (I assume proudly) by the tribe on their land. Puget Sound area I think, but don't quote me on that. It was absolutely fascinating to learn about their past. It was also very refreshing and heartbreaking to learn how they have been treated throughout colonization and moder times. I went to the history museum in New York and just couldn't see it as anything besides a monument to colonialism and greed and discrimination. Yes, I want to learn about Native Americans and their culture but I want to learn it from them, on their terms. Not from a society that has literally tried to make them go extinct.

Thank you. This channel is outstanding. Love and respect from London, UK.

keep 'em coming! this world needs more of the wisdom that is *embedded* in native american culture. more. than. ever.

My dad’s parents and my mom’s grandmother all went to boarding schools. I saw the different ways in which the schools affected the generations to come. My dad ended up being a very, very abusive and traumatized person, while my mom grew up with the love of her culture. I still live with the trauma of what happened to my VERY close relatives. I’m 21 and this horrific part of Indigenous history STILL effect generations and still might effect the next generations to come. It’s crazy the amount of people I meet that still have NO CLUE the atrocities our ancestors went through and most of us go through today. Yakoke to Dr. Klein for sharing her story and sharing her wisdom and warmth

the number of times my jaw dropped watching this equals how many tabs i opened. the work tai and co. produces is remarkable. i love learning here ❤❤❤

Great short video it was informative and we'll-presented. It made me cry a little bit too.

Thanks for this interview with Dr. Klein and sharing this history.

Love from Lawrence, Kansas!

the last thing Dr. Ramona said is so important. We HAVE to keep laughing. that’s how we’ve gotten through all this trauma is by finding the comedy in our tragedy.

this hurts too much for me to watch. Keep demanding the US compliance with treaties. Love to you all x

Epigenetics involves how the DNA of our cells gets folded. If its folded up it is not ‘being used’ where as if it is unfolded your cell can access it easily. The way DNA is folded dictates which genes can be used, how the cell works. This DNA folding is copied during cell duplication and even from parent to child. Since stress, trauma, has been shown to change the epigenetics of your body, your cells. There are studies theorising how in this way parents pass on their endured stress and the effect it causes on them, onto their children.

This series is incredible, tysm forall y'all's work ❤🎉❤

I used to know a Haskell TA, when I was a student at the University of Kansas. I was glad to see them attain their goal of becoming a 4 year college. He’s probably a professor by now.

Hey I went to college on Lawrence! It always blew my mind how little intermingling there was between Haskell and KU students, I met more Haskell students through Lawrence townies than I ever did hanging out with KU classmates. Haskell has a better connection to the Lawrence community than KU though, they host art festivals and sponsor several community events throughout the year. Stuff directed to local families and children. It's a nice campus too, I used to drive delivery to it.

My parents drove by Haskell every few weeks to buy groceries at Checkers , my whole childhood. Haskell always drew my attention.

EXCUSE ME a cemetery for the school... dang

iz got 4 years attended BHSC in the 79;s for native studies minor, social sciences major not completed. mom taught Lakota Oral lititure and ended with phd education. set up curriculums for school districts. she helped get the old women stories into text from tape. i 2 semester of Lakota language, 1 course in minor just on Indian Education history. books by authors helped in studes used.ie Eredoes.

Thank you for this.

Oh hey, I used to pass Haskell all the time when I was living in Lawrence to go to KU! Not often you hear references to ... much of anything in Kansas really

"Continue to laugh." Brilliant. Just brillant.

Thank you!

My great-grandma and her siblings all went to Genoa Indian boarding school, and her father went to Haskell. I have no idea what their experiences were, the only thing I could find were newspaper articles of my great-great-grandfather helping give some students a proper burial. I wish I could listen to their stories. I’ll never stop trying to know what they went through, positive or otherwise.

Really great video! But I would have liked for you to have interviewed any staff at Haskell?

this series is 🔥

I want to learn more about real American History and culture. Native pride.

Thank you for posting this. I very much want to learn more about all of the cultures that the US has tried to erase. I really wish that I could afford to watch this program on PBS. Maybe one day.

thank you for sharing this! My university is one of those school that is refusing to return artifacts and Native remains to their respective tribes, but at the same time we have strong Native representation on campus due to the Native American Student Union. They just had their 55th annual powwow this year which I went to! While we may have a strong Native student group and studies program there are still A LOT of classes/departments that have a ton of decolonization to work through.

Thank you for sharing your story, Ramona Klein! And, thank you Tai Leclaire for putting this together. I can't imagine reliving these memories, but I truly learn so much and I truly appreciate both of you sharing your knowledge with us. 🧡🧡🧡

Yeah, I've heard of Haskell University. I live five minutes away from it, after all. :)

More please

I grew up around KS City. I've always known about Haskell, but didn't know the details of how it got started. Very cool!

Thank you

I actually grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, where Haskell is located. I knew it was a Native American school, but I didn't know it's history. The fact that I didn't kinda shocks me now, because the public schools in that town make a huge deal about teaching the local colonizers history, but this was never mentioned. Not surprised, but it hurts my heart. Now I'm sitting here thinking about how Langston Hues was sitting in my elementary school when it was still segregated and little native children being held just across town. Did they know the other existed? If Langston Hues had known, would that have influenced his poetry? I knew my home town was bathed in blood in it's earlier days, but I never knew this side.

My parents both went to KU and I've been to Lawrence numerous times, so yes I know Haskell

I’m addicted to these videos

This is my hometown, born and raised. Haskell is a great school, deep history and it's not appreciated enough. The wetlands is under threat until this very day, those are sacred lands that shouldn't be touched. I talk about the school as much as I can over the other university. And I didn't go to either schools but I understand it's important to appreciate the native land and elders.

Still begging Slate to issue a correction on a video where the journalist said we don't exist; she's Asian it was horrifying because it felt extra gross coming from someone nonwhite.

KU, which is in the same city as Haskell, still has the remains of native people.

Indian School in downtown phoenix now near a classic hotel there, kids died in the well underneath that hotel.

My dad graduated from Haskell Indian Jr College back in Dec 91

Utterly astonishing. Looking back at my own education I do see that this is true, and I can only think that it was my own imagination that made the Native Americans "real" - it can't have been anything in the standard educational curriculum. I grew up in western Texas, and you can bet there were plenty of misrepresentations of Native Americans. Even the attempts at positive images were flat out wrong, as I've learned now. And yet I also vividly remember the day that an actual Navajo woman came to the school and taught us how to card wool, and told us stories. I remember when someone came and read "Arrow of the Sun" to us (a children's book based on Hopi legend, I think). I don't know the provenance of that story, or the author, or anything: but I remember VERY well how powerful the story felt to me, and how much I wanted to believe that the culture, the people, were real and alive and still in the world. I was very drawn to the romanticized versions of Native Americans. The more I learn nowadays, the more respect and love I feel for all of these tribes. I haven't the faintest notion what to do to make things right. So I will listen, and try to do what I can to make sure EVERYONE hears these stories and these truths.

I remember learning about the kidnappings and forced boarding schools in an "Indian Law" course in law school in the early 90s. I was dumbfounded. I wanted to scream and broadcast this information to everyone I knew and I have when ever possible. That class was the first time I had ever thought of Native history as a history of American genocide bc we were never exposed to that idea. I knew of individual battles and killings but the dots were never connected to portray it as true genocide. And also that Natives are NOT just historic and are continuing to work to rebound from that genocide. It's embarrassing and shameful how much history has been buried of Natives and Blacks. I am really dedicated to learning as much as I can possible consume now and for the future.

My ex wives grandfather and grandmother were taken off the plains of Oaklahoma at the age of about 3 years old. Their own parent were killed by the US Calvary. This was about 1906 . They both ran away at the age of 15 and made it to California. The family homestead in California is still standing and they had a family that did well and had many grandkids of all mixed races. My children are descendants of people who went through the schools after loosing their parents to massacre. And now these grandkids hunt, fish, farm and go to pow wows too.

I used to go there to hang out with the LDS students while attending KU. I loved the school and loved the people.

I didn't even know about the boarding schools until I visited the Heard Museum in Phoenix and they had an exhibit about it.

I loved Haskell, just didn’t like the mascot. It use to be a buffalo looking upward, but then changed to an Indian head. I will not wear anything with that mascot. It’s hard enough living in mainstream with stereotypical perspectives on natives. So I won’t encourage it. But I do love Haskell! Onward Haskell!!

THANK YOU for bringing up the KC Chiefs. I can't stand watching them win year after year with their ridiculous chant. People forced the Redskins and Indians to change, but everyone turns a blind eye to the team with Mahomes, Kelce, and Taylor Swift.

I have a family member buried at haskell from the boarding school era. Rip joseph rousseau. He was young probably homesick and scared and he got a illness and passed away at the school. My family members were from turtle mountain north dakota. Some of the kids were sent to morris boarding school in minnesota. When i look at my family history and records you can see that the language and chippewa culture stopped with the boarding school family members.

When I was in high school (public hs in Florida) we learned a little about Native Americans, including a fee by name such as Chief Osceola. However, it was never as extensive as learning the rest of US history.

I think one major factor is population and viewing in popular culture. A majority of native people live in a few states. States that also have very low population amounts so many people in America just won’t interact with native people a lot. Popular culture and showing native faces and stories is a great way of countering things like with shows like reservation dogs on Hulu made by native people stating native actors as real characters

I grew up in Alaska. I’m not native but I grew up learning about the culture…it only did good things for me. Everyone should learn about the native culture of where they live.

Not Canadian or American, but when I learned the story behind the Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada I felt so wtf, I don't have another way to say it

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If you have any interest in Native American history you must visit Haskell Indian Nations University. They have an amazing museum, and they celebrate their culture. The events on campus are well worth a visit, I went when I was a student at KU back in the early 2000s.

Thank you for providing this information. So many people in USA do not know the history of native americans. Im Modoc, and when i tell people my tribes name they are so confused. Becuz sadly majority of people dont know natives outside of the key ones mention in history books (navajo, sioux, etc), let alone a west coast native. I wish people understood that natives are still here and tribes have had to indure for many 100 of yrs just to be allowed to live on their ancestors land and speak our language.

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I live in PA. Very few people know that the school in Hershey was an Indian school. Hopefully, others will read this and KNOW.

I would have liked to know how Haskell made the transformation. The fact that its good now is wonderful. But its also remarkable.

High school history classes are geared toward passing the AP exams. From what I recall, the AP exam never asked any questions about native peoples.

The English celts were slatered and forced to assimilate into the Roman empire and then they forget about that history for hundreds of years then comes over to a foreign lands and conquer it and try to destroy the other culture. I didn’t learn of residency schools until I took an anthropology class and then I did a whole apa research paper on it because I was so heartbroken and filled with anger.

I live in Illinois and Gov Pritzker has signed a state law this year that's a version of NAGPRA. This is important because Illinois has the 5th largest amount of human remains. Thankfully some of the tribal nations who were removed from Illinois have been able to return and repatriate their ancestors and their cultural artifacts. I'm enrolled at Standing Rock and also a former Haskell student. #LandBack #CultureBack

2:16 I noticed this at 9 years old in history class (I'm white) and have been pissed off about it ever since.

I got public-educated in Florida and most years our curriculum didn't cover *anybody* after 1900. We almost never got that far, and no one really tried. And of course, I learned more about Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece than I learned about the peoples of the continent I actually live on. Had to get a university degree for that...

I really desperately hope they're teaching about boarding schools nowadays. When I was being homeschooled in the 90s by my conservative mom I obviously had most of ACTUAL history kept from me or coated in a thick layer of propaganda. But I dont think any of my friends learned about this either. I've had to go back and learn about all this as an adult and I'm really grateful there are people willing to educate about it, but I'm just so put off and disappointed that mainstream education sweeps so much of history under the rug. I think if more people talked about not just the reality of how indigenous people have been oppressed, but how they have an entire completely valid system of values that we just decided didn't matter (laughable that white people thought that was even our call to begin with), maybe they would be a little less uncomfy with things like the land back movement or pipeline protests.

I’m glad that I’ve grown up, learned more, been exposed to contrasting historical framing outside of the school system and popular enforced culture, and have enough balanced admiration for American Civilization that I now realize civilizing other peoples to a better culture is in fact awesome. Sure, the concept is somewhat “normal” throughout all of human history, unlike the more numerous accounts and non-accounts of people groups being wiped off the face of the Earth instead, but still unique. Nobody actually thinks it’s not. Historically that includes various tribes and tribal nations as well when it came to their neighbors who simply were not as good as them for any number of reasons. Conquest by another does not necessarily mean the other was better in all aspects, but sometimes that can indeed be the case, hence the reason they could have won out in the first place, but then also build upon such a conquest to something or continue something more long-term. Sometimes in the form of one’s group, a culture, or a civilization. Today, I approve of both America and Canada’s old historic stated missions in terms of bringing a better and more beneficial civilization to other peoples. Historically and today, I will simply debate the pros and cons of various methods to go about doing so. While also simultaneously acknowledging that the concerns for doing so are based and inherent to the ethics of our Christian Civilization in the first place. I would like to find a synchronizing balance that takes as much specific tribal Indian culture, values, and aesthetics as much as possible, and fuse it to American civilization! Where it is not compatible, it can be remembered, but not practiced and instead dropped. The history should be known in full. Various American cultures have always existed within the country, it must simply also be united by common American Civilization overall. Boarding schools having abuse incidents are not unique to Indian boarding schools, and I’m tired of that important caveat never being mentioned. Disease and subsequent fatalities, not only in boarding schools and for children, but in general was atrocious up into the late 19th and middle 20th centuries. The vast majority of the population of various native tribes and nations in the Western hemisphere didn’t disappear due to disease because they were all crowded together and boarding schools before such a thing was even being implemented. This issue was not unique to Indian children boarding schools. Epigenetics If you want to keep advocating for the erasure of iconic, valued, beloved, and or fun Indian images across American and Canadian pop culture and life in general, that’s fine. I appreciate it and would’ve appreciated others being made in the future, perhaps even more people liking. But if you’re pushing for more erasure, I won’t really get up in arms about it. Even the people claiming to be preserving their culture live and take for granted beliefs in very “western,” or more accurately, American and Canadian Civilization values and material goods. Nobody’s gonna get educated by watching this PBS series. To be fair that’s most of PBS in general.

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❤❤❤ I grew up next to Onondaga Reservation our school flew the Onondaga flag right next to the American flag. They worked hard to educate us about true Native American history. I wish it didn’t take living next to a reservation to get an honest education.

Seriously: The athletic teams for Red Mesa High School in Red Mesa, Arizona, are known as the Redskins.

Am I missing something? I don't see the 'last episode' about how natives used to educate there children. Genuinely want to learn and frustrated that the Playlist seems to be missing parts I also cannot find in general content

I'm curious for your thoughts on UIUC's Chief Illiniwek. At the time of his removal as mascot, the thought was that the representation was disrespectful to tribes, even though they had made sure to honor the legacy with respect and not treat that history cartoonishly. Natives I knew took it as a sign of Indigenous erasure to make for white comfort in a SJ sort of way. A "liberals gone wrong" episode, if you will.

So what do you folks think of Red Cloud Indian School (besides the buried remains debate😬)?

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when i was a kid i get to meat Ironized Cody i have always had a love for the native Americans i have heard of them taking the kids away but not not much i was homeschooled so i learned a lot more about native Americans then most people. who every said you cant change history never saw public school history im part German i asked a 12 what he was learning in school he told me about the great German leader hitler i educated him on the horror that man did scary what they are teaching kids in school these days

I work at a museum that hosted the Heard Museum exhibit “Away from Home.” A family of Seneca descendants came in - in Montana - and explained they were “mostly white now” but that the eldest in the family, in her 70s, had a grandma who was sent to Haskell. She had no way to return to New York & bounced around the west. the family doubts having enough money to visit NY anytime soon (not a coincidence!), they came to the exhibit to see the Haskell artifacts and find a place in history where they belong. It was deeply humbling to host them & help them reconnect. The joke about white people’s mythic Cherokee grandmas isn’t so funny when you realize many people do have them but aren’t culturally native - because they were intentionally severed from their culture. Coerced adoptions & the criminalization of poverty in the mid century, the 60s scoop, heaped that on, but the movement is the strongest I’ve seen - my conscious life begins shortly after the 70s movement hit the “armed conflict with the FBi” stage. Rest in peace, your power lives on, Anna Mae.