Tag: Native American boarding schools

• NARF Legal Review Covers Boarding School History and the Path to Healing

  Here. An excerpt: Like a lot of the details of the United States historical relations with the indigenous inhabitants of this land, the story of the Indian boarding school policy of the United States government has largely been written out of the history books. Yet, this was a major federal policy. And it had major impacts, positive and negative, on indigenous…

  Matthew Campbell

  December 10, 2013

  Article, Discussion

  History, Native American boarding schools, Native American Rights FUnd, United States

• Oklahoma SCT Decides Case in Favor of Indian Football Players at Sequoyah High School in Talequah

  Here is the opinion in Scott v. Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Assn.: 2013-10-01 OSSAA Opinion A summary of the case by Chad Smith, who represented the players: The OSSAA suspended 12 students at Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah and did not let compete in the state football championships.  Sequoyah is an Indian boarding school run by…

  Matthew Campbell

  November 6, 2013

  Announcement, Legal

  Cherokee, Native American boarding schools, Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association, Oklahoma Supreme Court, Sequoyah High School, Tahlequah Oklahoma