This presentation is an Indigenous autoethnographic study of a family’s story of survival through the Native American boarding school system. Although this project was in a part an academic exercise, it was also an effort to reclaim pieces of a family’s experience that was purposefully silenced and erased from mainstream hegemonic nationalist narratives. 

Speaker: Melissa Beard Jacob, PhD | Intercultural Specialist, Native American and Indigenous Student Initiatives, Office of Student Life Multicultural Center | The Ohio State University

This podcast is presented in partnership with Ohio State Newark Earthworks Center, American Indian Studies, and the Ohio State University Department of History.

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A transcript of this podcast is available at https://origins.osu.edu/historytalk/reclaiming-my-familys-story-cultural-trauma-indigenous-ways-knowing