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124 Years to Home
Subject
Family
Theme
Race
Step back in time to explore one family’s experience between the Oneida Indian Reservation inWisconsin, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and the journey to return home. AmandaCawthorn shares her family’s story of loss through residential schools, as well as resiliency andreclamation through language, dance, and connection. Participants will consider questionsabout the importance of community, the cost of assimilation, and the path towardreconciliation.

