When:
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
6:00 PM - 7:15 PM CT
Where: McCormick Foundation Center, McCormick Foundation Center Forum, 1870 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free
Contact:
Nancy Cunniff
(847) 467-2294
Group: One Book One Northwestern
Category: Lectures & Meetings, Multicultural & Diversity, Global & Civic Engagement
Dana Hedgpeth, a Native American journalist and a 25-year veteran reporter of The Washington Post, details how she along with an investigative team unveiled the largely forgotten and long ignored abuse and deaths of Native American children who were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to U.S. government-run boarding schools. The purpose? To eradicate their culture and languages and assimilate them into White society. More than 3,000 children died and another 1,000 were sexually abused at these institutions which operated for a 150-year period, starting in the late 1800s. Hedgpeth is an enrolled member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe of N.C., and has written dozens of stories detailing the truths of Native Americans and their history.