2024 Friends Historical Association annual meeting and Lecture: “New England Yearly Meeting and the Indigenous Boarding Schools”
Saturday, November 2, 2024
11:30am - 1:00pm EDT
Free - Virtual (registration required)
Schedule of Events:
11:30 AM Eastern Time / 10:30 AM Central Time / 8:30 AM Pacific Time / 3:30 PM Greenwich Mean Time (show my local time) -
Annual FHA Membership Meeting12:00 PM Eastern Time -
“New England Yearly Meeting and the Indigenous Boarding Schools” Lecture by NEYM’s Indigenous Boarding School Research Group
“Boarding and Industrial School, Sac & Fox Agency, Indian Territory,” approximately 1875. The Huntington, photCL 275 fld. 22 (18).
About the Lecture:
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.
This event is free but registration is required. A Zoom link will be distributed to all registrants approximately 24 hours in advance of the start of the event.
About the Speaker:
Main presenter: Gordon Bugbee, DMin MPA, was the lead researcher and author of the report. He is a longtime member of Beacon Hill Monthly Meeting, on the traditional lands of the Massachusetts Tribe, and also serves on NEYM’s Right Relations Resource Group. In February 2024 Gordon was led to conduct research at NARA/Fort Worth and the Oklahoma Historical Society and to visit some of the sites where NEYM-supported schools were located. He was accompanied by his elder, Suzanna Schell, also of NEYM.
About the Meeting:
FHA Members are encouraged to attend the annual membership meeting. The Board will share updates from the organization’s past year, and membership will be asked to approve the annual budget and the slate of nominations for Board service.