This is a clip from Allan Holzman's Beautiful Resistance and can serve as a springboard for the questions and resources below.

Life in School during the Boarding School Movement

How These Stories Matter Today

Why does the Indian Boarding School history matter today?
What are the common threads in these family stories?
What influences do you detect that the stories have had on the descendants telling the story?
How do these stories seem similar and different from the stories of the elders in your family?