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Indian Boarding Schools NHL Project
National Historic Landmarks Program » Indian Boarding Schools NHL Project
The National Park Service (NPS) National Historic Landmarks (NHL) Program is preparing a nationwide context study regarding the history of Indian Boarding Schools and an NHL nomination for Stewart Indian School in Carson City, Nevada, in partnership with the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO).
This is a targeted project intended to improve evaluation and recognition of extant Indian Boarding School sites within the federal NHL Program and National Register of Historic Places. The historic context study for Indian Boarding Schools will serve as an authoritative resource for the development of future NHL nominations or National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nominations by THPOs or other interested parties. Although not directly related, the NHL project uses background information published in the DOI Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative (2021-2024).
National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) are nationally significant historic places of high integrity designated by the Secretary of the Interior because they possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. There are currently 2,651 NHLs, including seven historic Indian boarding schools designated as NHLs since 1962.
This effort seeks to incorporate Native voices and includes current scholarship that offers detailed and sometimes tragic accounts of the experiences of Indigenous children at these institutions. Both documents discuss the actions these schools took to culturally assimilate Indigenous children after forcibly removing them from their families as well as progress towards healing this generational trauma through accounts of survival and the persistence of Native communities.
Photo: Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum (former Administration Building), Carson City, Nevada
This is a targeted project intended to improve evaluation and recognition of extant Indian Boarding School sites within the federal NHL Program and National Register of Historic Places. The historic context study for Indian Boarding Schools will serve as an authoritative resource for the development of future NHL nominations or National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) nominations by THPOs or other interested parties. Although not directly related, the NHL project uses background information published in the DOI Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative (2021-2024).
National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) are nationally significant historic places of high integrity designated by the Secretary of the Interior because they possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. There are currently 2,651 NHLs, including seven historic Indian boarding schools designated as NHLs since 1962.
This effort seeks to incorporate Native voices and includes current scholarship that offers detailed and sometimes tragic accounts of the experiences of Indigenous children at these institutions. Both documents discuss the actions these schools took to culturally assimilate Indigenous children after forcibly removing them from their families as well as progress towards healing this generational trauma through accounts of survival and the persistence of Native communities.
Photo: Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum (former Administration Building), Carson City, Nevada