Lake Vermilion Boarding School

Series produced by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio

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The Boarding Schools of early America is a sad story of the U.S. Government's attempts to assimilate the American Indian inhabiting this land before them, into the mainstream society. The coin phrase of the first Boarding School program was to 'kill the Indian, save the child'.
This series about the Lake Vermilion Boarding School: Stories of survival and resilience was produced by the Nett Lake Radio Project and made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

KBFT presents a series about the Lake Vermilion Boarding school: stories of survival and resilience - produced by the Nett Lake radio project.


16 Pieces

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Allison Herrera starts the interview with how the boarding school had such a lasting affect on those youth that attended the boarding schools. Dr....

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 04:04
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Allison Herrera begins with how the policy at the Lake Vermilion Boarding School had changed. Dr. Linda Legarde Grover explains further how she ca...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:36
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Allison feels that an important part of the history of Lake Vermilion Boarding School is who gets to tell it. Allison asks Linda why she devoted s...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:31
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Allison begins this segment with a description of some of Linda's previous work as an author and researcher of the 'boarding school era'. Linda go...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:28
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Linda starts off with a description of how the day started at the boarding schools. The days at the boarding schools were very structured. Linda ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:50
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Allison describes an 'outing program' in which accidents, strict punishments and the possibility of exploitation often occurred. Linda shares a st...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:40
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Allison continues with how the discipline of the children at the boarding school resulted in the death of a child. Linda continues with how her re...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 04:15
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Allison and Linda discuss how the management of the boarding schools took place. The Lake Vermilion Boarding School was built to accommodate 150 c...

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  • Length: 05:03
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Allison describes some of the boarding schools in the 1830's and how some of those day and boarding schools could house from 400 to 1700 children. ...

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  • Length: 04:21
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Linda LeGarde Grover begins this segment and continues to share some of her research about the boarding schools and how those boarding schools crea...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 04:27
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Allison Herrera interviews Joyce Kay Davis about the Lake Vermilion Boarding School. Kay shares that most of her cousins that went to the boarding...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 04:09
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Allison Herrera for this Lake Vermilion Boarding Schools series, interviews Joyce Kay Davis about Kay's mother teaching at the Nett Lake School. K...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 04:19
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Allison Herrera continues with her interview of Joyce Kay Davis for the Lake Vermilion Boarding School series. Joyce shares how important it has b...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:52
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Allison Herrera interviews Joyce Kay Davis who has does extensive research on and for the Bois Forte Reservation and village of Nett Lake. Joyce s...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:47
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Allison Herrera interviews Ira Allen Brown, who shares his history and connection with the Lake Vermilion Boarding School. Ira shares that his fat...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 03:51
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Allison Herrera begins with the location of the Lake Vermilion Boarding School. Allison then introduces author, Dr. Linda LeGard Grover, a profess...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 06:20