The Sheldon Museum of Art will host an event Friday in recognition of one of the nation’s largest federal Native American boarding schools.
The Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School operated from 1884 to 1934. At its peak in 1932, the school’s 640-acre campus housed 599 students, who ranged in age from 4 to 22 years old. Children from more than 40 tribes were taken from their families and communities and stripped of their language and culture.
A Genoa Remembrance Day panel discussion is planned for 5:30 p.m. Friday at the Lincoln museum. The event will include remarks by Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs Director Judi gaiashkibos, a University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange student-led panel and community conversations…