Join the Friends Historical Association for its 2024 Annual Members Meeting and Lecture on Saturday, November 2, 2023 at 11:30am – 1:00pm ET on Zoom. This year’s lecture is “New England Yearly Meeting and the Indigenous Boarding Schools” by NEYM’s Indigenous Boarding School Research Group. Registration is required. Learn more and register here.
New England Yearly Meeting (NEYM) played a significant role in establishing and supporting several Indigenous day and boarding schools intended to further the federal government’s program of assimilation of Native Peoples and the opening of reserved land for settlement and exploitation. In 2022, responding to requests from the US Dept. of the Interior and the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS), NEYM set up a research group to investigate the details of its involvement. In this presentation, members of NEYM’s Indigenous Boarding School Research Group will present a summary of their findings and outline their research process and challenges.
This event will also include a brief update on a NABS project to digitize Quaker records at Swarthmore and Haverford colleges.
The lecture will begin at 12pm, preceded by the FHA Annual Membership Meeting.
