
The material contained on this page is dedicated to serve as a resource and listed documentation of articles, publications, books, audio and videos regarding the Mt. Pleasant Indian Boarding School along with other boarding schools that may also be cited throughout the listed page.
thesis – The Mt Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School: An Analysis of Student Life Through Archaeology, Oral History, and Archival Data by Sarah Jayne Hegyi
thesis – Botanical Analysis of the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School by Nick Bacon
thesis – Anishinabek News, Native Nation Building, and American Indian Boarding Schools: A Mixed Methods Frame Analysis of Mainstream and Tribal Journalism by Vanessa May Cisneros
thesis – Teacher Confidence & Competence: Examining Teacher Training in Historical Trauma-Informed Practices in Support of American Indian Students by Timothy N. Constant
article – The Mt Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School (American Religion)
article – On Indian Children and the Fifth Amendment by Matthew LM Fletcher
news article – Journalist unearths family history while reporting on boarding school trauma, family, cultural destruction by Sierra Clark
news article – Pain and resilience: The legacy of Native American boarding schools in Michigan (Michigan Advance) – includes interviews
audio/video interview w/transcript – Reclaiming My Family’s Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing by Melissa Beard-Jacob
chapbook – Shelter Disenclosed by Christian Nakarado
blog post – Journey of Forgiveness by Levi Rickert
Federal Boarding School Annotated Bibliographies at Dickinson College – 3 sections on MIIBS
Photography in Indian Boarding Schools – William L. Clements Library at University of Michigan
Listed are documentaries available for checkout on DVD at the Tribal Libraries:
Indian school : Stories of survival and there is a panel discussion regarding the making of this documentary, available on youtube
Our Fires Still Burn a review from the International Journal of Multicultural Education is attached and provides detail on the chapter about MIIBS
School days remembered [videorecording] : the Mt. Pleasant Indian School reunion 1991
This is held by the Clarke at CMU