The Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project

 

The Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project is
a new effort to tell the story of the thousands of American
Indian children from forty Indian nations who attended the Genoa Indian
Boarding School in Genoa, Nebraska. The school was open from 1884-1934
and sprawled over 640 acres. The first phase of the project has
digitized and described government records. Later
phases will digitize oral histories, community narratives, and
artifacts. The project is a collaboration between the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln; the Genoa U.S. Indian School Foundation; Community
Advisors from the Omaha, Pawnee, Ponca, Santee Sioux, and
Winnebago tribes of Nebraska; and descendants of those who attended
Genoa. It aims to bring greater awareness of the schools and their
legacies at the same time as it hopes to return the histories of Indian
children from government repositories back to their
families and tribes. So far, project members have digitized, described,
and published about 4,000 pages of documents. Communities and
individuals will be able to contribute their own digital content to the
record.

For more information on the project, visit https://genoaindianschool.org/ or
contact genoadigitalproject@unl.edu.