Native Bidaské with Kristen Lilya (Ojibwe) & Neely Bardwell (Odawa)
Join Native News Online Publisher Levi Rickert as he hosts a discussion with members of the Native News Online staff members, Kristen Lilya and Neely Bardwell on Indian boarding schools.
The discovery of 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia made international headlines, shining a spotlight on a dark era of forced assimilation of Indigenous children by the federal governments of Canada and the United States, with help from several Christian denominations and churches.
Kamloops woke up the world to a dark history that even young Native Americans did not know.
In this segment of Native Bidaské, Lilya and Bardwell, both of whom are in their 20s, will discuss how the news of Indian boarding schools has opened up conversations in their own families and how a new generation of Native Americans are coping with the subject.
Kristen Lilya is a citizen of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa. She is a marketing and sponsorship representative for Native News Online’s parent company, Indian Country Media.
Neely Bardwell (descendant of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indian), who began as an intern with Native News Online during the summer of 2021, is a freelance writer.
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