American Indian & Indigenous Studies Workshop

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, the First Nations Repatriation Institute, and the University of Minnesota have partnered on a study that seeks to better understand child removal among American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Any American Indian or Alaska Native individual who is a boarding school survivor, has boarding school history in their family, or was adopted or placed in foster care is eligible for the survey. On average, it takes about 30 minutes and is completely anonymous.

The study is the first of its kind and aims to:

- Look at the correlation between Indian Boarding Schools and adoption and foster care in later generations;
- Learn about the inter-generational impacts of child removal on behavioral health, parenting, and physical health; and
- Inquire about how these populations are healing from historical and inter-generational trauma related to child removal.

We hope you will share your stories so that Americans can better understand child removal in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Your participation will benefit boarding school survivors/descendants and adoptees and/or formerly fostered individuals, families, and Native communities for generations to come!

The survey is completely anonymous and does not collect any identifying information. It can be taken online at your convenience and will take an average of 30 minutes to complete, depending on the sections that apply. For more information about the survey, please read the blog on our website. Also, Indian Country Today picked up our press release and published an article about the study here: https://bit.ly/2D4q7A2.

Here is the direct link to the survey: z.umn.edu/child-removal-study

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