{"id":16036,"date":"2021-09-21T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=16036"},"modified":"2022-03-22T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T14:45:32","slug":"msu-news-montana-state-university-set-for-american-indian-heritage-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/09\/21\/msu-news-montana-state-university-set-for-american-indian-heritage-day\/","title":{"rendered":"MSU News: Montana State University set for American Indian Heritage Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\"MSU<\/a>
MSU’s 2021 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. Photo by Kelly Gorham \/ MSU<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n
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<\/P>\r\nBOZEMAN, Montana — Montana State University\u2019s 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.\r\n

<\/P>\r\nNicholas Ross-Dick, program manager at American Indian\/Alaska Native Student Success<\/a>, said \u201cA Voice for the Children\u201d 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.\r\n

<\/P>\r\n\u201cWe 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,\u201d Ross-Dick said.\r\n

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<\/P>\r\nRoss-Dick said the organizing committee selected the topic after this summer\u2019s 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>, a doctoral student in MSU\u2019s Individual Interdisciplinary Program and a member of Montana\u2019s Northern Cheyenne Tribe who has been working at the forefront of the issue for several years. \r\n

<\/P>\r\nSmall\u2019s 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\u2019s degree in Native American Studies, earned at MSU in 2015, was titled \u201cPreservation of Sacred Sites and Sacred Places with Geo-referencing Systems: A Voice for the Children of Chemawa Indian School Cemetery.\u201d \r\n

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