Mini-episode: A History of the Haskell Institute
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English - January 21, 2021 19:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHistory Society & Culture history american kansas midwest pandemic local Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Kansas is home to Haskell Indian Nations University, today the premier institution of higher education for Native Americans in the United States. However, Haskell has a long and complicated history, including experiencing two deadly outbreaks of the 1918 influenza pandemic (as told in Episode 3). In this mini-episode, we talk with Prof. Eric Anderson, chair of the Indigenous and American Indian Studies Department at Haskell Indian Nations University and an expert on the history of the institution. how did a boarding school that for many decades promoted assimilation into Euro-American culture, forcibly stripping students of their indigenous cultures, eventually become a university that celebrates and promotes Indigenous sovereignty and Native American culture in all its diversity?