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

A transcript of this audio is available at https://origins.osu.edu/transcripts/reclaiming-my-familys-story.