Boarding School: Historical Trauma among Alaska's Native People
Internet URL
http://elders.uaa.alaska.edu/reports/yr2_2boarding-school.pdf 
Sponsoring Agency
National Resource Center for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Elders
Description
This paper begins with a discussion of the broader aspects of historical trauma among Alaska’s indigenous people, beginning in the late 1880s and continuing through most of the 1990s. Topics include: the introduction of Western illnesses and diseases, Western education (boarding schools), and forced Western Christianity. However, the main focus of this paper is to examine the traumatic impacts of the Wrangell Institute Boarding School and the significant role the Episcopal Church of Alaska played in recognizing, implementing, and organizing a “Healing Convocation” for some of its parishioners.