Contribution short abstract

Transdisciplinary research drawing on epidemiology, history, and Indigenous studies exposes how American Indian boarding schools transformed Native North America by restricting Indigenous economies, altering migration patterns, and forcibly relocating ~250,000 Indigenous children.

Contribution long abstract

Preston McBride explores how American Indian boarding schools transformed Native North America by restricting Indigenous economies, altering migration patterns, and forcibly relocating approximately 250,000 Indigenous children. These schools were carceral: there, children contracted lethal diseases and died in large numbers. McBride’s transdisciplinary research draws on epidemiology, history, and Indigenous studies to expose the settler-colonial logics that led to Native American erasure and transformation of Indigenous communities.