In 1902 the Federal Government opened the flagship Sherman Institute, an influential off-reservation boarding school in Riverside, California, to transform Amer

Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine students. Its

"Shadows of Sherman Institute is a photographic study of one of the most historically signficant sites of Native American history, the Sherman Indian Boarding S

Draws on diary entries and correspondence from student to tell the story of the early years of Haskell Institute, a government boarding school designed to "civi

To Win the Indian Heart: Music At Chemawa Indian School is an exploration of the crucial role music played at the longest-operating federal boarding school for