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MSU sets American Indian Heritage Day celebration for September 23-24
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
MSU News Service
BOZEMAN, Montana — Montana State University’s annual American Indian Heritage Day celebration, set for September 23-24, will focus on the national work to recover and return the remains of children who died at historical Indian boarding schools to their communities.
Nicholas Ross-Dick, program manager at American Indian/Alaska Native Student Success, said “A Voice for the Children” will bring awareness to the work that is being done in North America to return the remains of children to their peoples and communities. The two-day event will include a film, lectures by academics at the forefront of the recovery efforts, an educational exhibit and more.
“We are pleased to bring awareness, education and dialogue surrounding residential and boarding schools and the work and impacts of recovering and returning the remains of children to their peoples,” Ross-Dick said.
Ross-Dick said the organizing committee selected the topic after this summer’s discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves of children at the sites of former residential schools for Indigenous children in Canada. Ross-Dick said the program will feature Marsha Small, a doctoral student in MSU’s Individual Interdisciplinary Program and a member of Montana’s Northern Cheyenne Tribe who has been working at the forefront of the issue for several years.
Small’s research, which has been featured in media reports around the world, includes using ground-penetrating radar to find graves at historical Indian boarding schools in the U.S. Her thesis for her master’s degree in Native American Studies, earned at MSU in 2015, was titled “Preservation of Sacred Sites and Sacred Places with Geo-referencing Systems: A Voice for the Children of Chemawa Indian School Cemetery.”
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