Revisiting One of the Oldest Orphanages, Asylums, and Indigenous Residential Boarding Schools: The Thomas Indian School at Seneca Nation

Haynes, Hayden; McCarthy, Theresa; Abrams, Corinne; Lewis, Melissa E.; Haring, Rodney C.

doi:10.3390/ijerph21091120

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Revisiting One of the Oldest Orphanages, Asylums, and Indigenous Residential Boarding Schools: The Thomas Indian School at Seneca Nation

by

Hayden Haynes

¹,

Theresa McCarthy

²,

Corinne Abrams

³

,

Melissa E. Lewis

⁴

and

Rodney C. Haring

^1,*

¹

Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center, Salamanca, NY 14779, USA

²

Indigenous Studies Department, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA

³

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Indigenous Cancer Health, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA

⁴

Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65201, USA

^*

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21(9), 1120; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21091120

Submission received: 15 May 2024 / Revised: 29 June 2024 / Accepted: 10 July 2024 / Published: 25 August 2024

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Indigenous and American Indian and Alaska Native Health and Wellness)

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Abstract

For Indigenous populations, one of the most recognized acts of historical trauma has come from boarding schools. These institutions were established by federal and state governments to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children into foreign cultures through spiritual, physical, and sexual abuse and through the destruction of critical connections to land, family, and tribal community. This literature review focuses on the impact of one of the oldest orphanages, asylums, and Indigenous residential boarding schools in the United States. The paper shares perspectives on national and international parallels of residential schools, land, truth and reconciliation, social justice, and the reconnection of resiliency-based Indigenous Knowledge towards ancestral strength, reclamation, survivorship, and cultural continuance.

Keywords: Indian boarding school; Indian residential schools; missing and murdered Indigenous women and children; historical trauma; intergenerational trauma; health disparity; strength; resiliency; survivor; Native American; First Nations; Indigenous

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Haynes, H.; McCarthy, T.; Abrams, C.; Lewis, M.E.; Haring, R.C. Revisiting One of the Oldest Orphanages, Asylums, and Indigenous Residential Boarding Schools: The Thomas Indian School at Seneca Nation. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21, 1120. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21091120

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Haynes H, McCarthy T, Abrams C, Lewis ME, Haring RC. Revisiting One of the Oldest Orphanages, Asylums, and Indigenous Residential Boarding Schools: The Thomas Indian School at Seneca Nation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2024; 21(9):1120. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21091120

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Haynes, Hayden, Theresa McCarthy, Corinne Abrams, Melissa E. Lewis, and Rodney C. Haring. 2024. "Revisiting One of the Oldest Orphanages, Asylums, and Indigenous Residential Boarding Schools: The Thomas Indian School at Seneca Nation" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 21, no. 9: 1120. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21091120

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