MIIBS
1111 S Crawford Rd, Mt Pleasant, MI 48858
page-banner-shape-2

Resources

A Collection of

Resources and
Historical Information

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 – Using Photography as an Anthropological Approach to Studying Culture at the Mount Pleasant lndian lndustrial Boarding School, 1893-1934 by David Brown

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 – Discourses of the Haunted: An Intersubjective Approach to Archaeology at the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School by Sarah L. Surface-Evans and Sarah J. Jones 

article – A Landscape of Assimilation and Resistance: The Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School by Sarah L. Surface-Evans 

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

National Archives at Chicago

Federal Boarding School Annotated Bibliographies at Dickinson College – 3 sections on MIIBS

National Archives

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