Native America Calling: Remembering those who stood up to boarding schools

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Remembering those who stood up to boarding schools

A Navajo family tells the story in Bad Indian: Hiding in Antelope Canyon, a new film about their relative Tadidinii, who was killed while refusing to return his daughter back to the boarding school from which she ran away.

The men who killed Tadidinii were acquitted. The family also gives tours of Antelope Canyon, where their relative hid out on the Arizona portion of the Navajo Nation.

Trailer: Bad Indian: Hiding in Antelope Canyon

Another Yerington Paiute boy repeatedly ran away and traveled the 50 miles back home until the boarding school administrators gave up. These are among the stories that descendants are uncovering about the dangers their relatives endured to resist forced attendance in boarding schools from the 1860s to the 1970s.

Join Native America Calling to hear some of the stories of danger, desperation, and courage.

Underscore.News: Young Native runner honors family legacy

Ku Stevens’ great-grandfather escaped an Indian boarding school by running 50 miles through the desert to get home. Decades later, Ku runs to honor that legacy.

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Guests on Native America Calling

Mitch Walking Elk (enrolled Cheyenne and Arapaho and of Hopi descent), boarding school survivor

Judi gaiashkibos (enrolled Ponca and Santee Sioux), descendent and survivor of the Genoa Indian Industrial School, executive director of the Nebraska Commission of Indian Affairs, and co-chair of the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project

Gabriann Hall (enrolled member of the Klamath Tribes), adjunct professor at Central Oregon Community College

Kutoven “Ku” Stevens (Yerington Paiute), University of Oregon student

Logan Tsinigine (Diné), co-producer of the film Bad Indian: Hiding in Antelope Canyon and chief financial officer of Taadidiin Tours LLC, a business in Arizona