Clyde Ellis awarded a grant from the Native American Rights Fund to conduct a literature review on the long term consequences of federal Indian boarding schools.
Professor of History Clyde Ellis has won a $12,000 grant from the Native American Rights Fund of Denver, Colorado to conduct a comprehensive literature review on the long-term consequences of federal boarding schools in American Indian communities.
Ellis, who has published extensively on federal Indian education and on issues in contemporary Native communities, will serve as principal investigator and is joined by three colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Meredith McCoy (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians), a doctoral candidate in American Studies; Danielle Gartner (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), a doctoral. candidate in Social Epidemiology; and Rachel Wilbur (Tolowa and Chetco nations), a doctoral student in Anthropology.
The team is constructing an interdisciplinary review of the literature on boarding schools and their consequences with sources from American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Sociology, Education, Economics, History, Public Health, and Psychology, among other fields. They would like to acknowledge the timely and energetic assistance of Bonnie Bruno and the staff in Elon’s office of Sponsored Programs.