Native American past chronicled
■ An Exhibit explores the
history of government-run
boarding schools through
displays and panels
By Ben Romano
Oregon Daily Emerald
The experience of Native Amer
ican children who were forced to
leave their homes and families,
abandon their cultures and re
quired to attend government
boarding schools is chronicled in
“They Sacrificed For Our Sur
vival,” a temporary exhibit at the
University Natural History Muse
um.
“There are a lot of interesting
angles to this exhibit,” said Eliza
Schmidkunz, museum publicist.
The exhibit will be on display
through Dec. 23.
Photographs and testimonials
describe the federal boarding
schools. It was the mission of the
schools to “civilize” Native Amer
icans.
This topic will be explored fur
ther during a speech and panel
discussion by Tsianina Lo
mawaima, University of Arizona
Native American Studies profes
sor and author of a book on Okla
homa’s Chilocco Indian School,
which her father attended.
Lomawaima’s visit is sponsored
by the Oregon Humanities Center
as the 1999-2000 Cressman Lec
turer, an annual lectureship dedi
cated to humanities issues.
She will speak on “Education
By Indians vs. Education for Indi
ans: Native Responses to Boarding
Schools,” Julia Heydon, assistant
director of the Oregon Humanities
Center, said.
Lomawaima will also join a
‘Carrying the Song’
The first part of a three-exhibition series called “Carrying The Song," about the
survival of Native American cultures in the Pacific Northwest will begin with the
following events;
“They Sacrificed For Our Survival,” a temporary exhibit at the University Natur
al History Museum, will be on display until Dec. 23.
In conjunction, Tsianina Lomawaima will speak on “Education By Indians vs.
Education for Indians: Native Responses to Boarding Schools,” on Thursday,
Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in Room 175 of the Knight taw Center.
Panel of Native American boarding school students Sunday, Nov. 6 at 3 p.m.
in the lobby of the University Natural History Museum. Ail events are free and
open to the public.
SOURCE: Eliza Schmktkunz, museum publicist.
Native American Boarding School facts:
The first exclusively Native American boarding school was opened in Carlisle,
Pa., in 1879.
Early boarding schools emphasized labor, housekeeping, uniformity and mili
tary discipline,
By the 1960s, many of the large boarding schools in Oklahoma, Kansas, the
Dakotas, Washington and California had either closed or changed.
Two schools remain today: Sherman Institute in Riverside, Calif., and
Chemawa Indian School in Salem.
Chemawa is now a four-year, fully accredited high school with students repre
senting tribes from 17 states.
Curriculums at the boarding schools have changed drastically. Students take
courses in Native American literature and history, dancing, drumming and tra
ditional arts.
SOURCE: University Museum of Natural History
panel of current and former Native
American boarding school stu
dents to discuss their experiences.
The panel discussion will be held
Saturday, Nov. 6 at 3 p.m. in the
lobby of the museum.
Both events will be free and
open to the public.
The exhibit is part of “Carrying
The Song,” a series of three related
exhibitions focusing on the sur
vival of Native American cultures
in the Pacific Northwest.
“Sagebrush, Cedar, and Tule,”
the second part of the series, will
examine the 10,000-year history of
Oregon basketry.
The last exhibition in the series,
“A Song to the Creator,” will focus
on traditional arts of Native Amer
ican Women of the Plateau.
The exhibits will be on display
winter and spring of 2000, respec
tively.
“One of the things we and our
Native American consultants
wanted to do is paint the theme [of
the series] as overcoming struggles
Jeffrey Stockton Emerald
Eugene resident Maty Jaqua browses the new Native American exhibit at the Natural His
tory Museum. The exhibit will run through March.
— surviving,” Schmidkunz said.
“Native American cultures
weren’t destroyed; they didn’t
end. They’re a living group of peo
ple.”
The museum staff is conscious
of the claims of some critics who
wonder why the cultures of in
digenous peoples are displayed in
“natural history” museums while
white, western culture is dis
played in “art” museums, said
Museum Director Mel Aikens.
“The reality is that all human
beings are part of nature and ap
propriate subject matter for the
Natural History Museum,” Aikens
said.
The museum has permanent
and rotating exhibits on geologi
cal, biological and cultural histo
ry
“We are a museum of natural
and cultural history,” Aikens said.
The staff is considering a name
change to reflect that.
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