[Libs-Or] State Library Newsletter: Letter to Libraries Online (February 2021 Supplement)

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Volume 31, Issue 2 Supplement - February 2021

Additional Context for Presidential Visits in Oregon

In the Presidential Visits in Oregon article included in the February Letters to Libraries Online issue, a mention was made of President Hayes visiting a Native American training school in Forest Grove<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=b78cb7a040&e=14e6da8535>. We think it's important to provide some additional context about this visit given the devastating impact these boarding schools had on Native Americans in our state and across the country. We apologize for omitting this context earlier. We are issuing this supplement to provide additional background information and resources.

The Oregon Encyclopedia<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=a4115b165f&e=14e6da8535> includes the following information about this visit:

It is also likely that Hayes wanted to gain support from Oregon and other western states for his Native American and Chinese assimilation policies. He believed that "race prejudice" was jeopardizing international trade with China and that legal conflicts with the sovereign Indian nations could only be resolved "through extinction of the Indian as an Indian." On his visit to Oregon, Hayes stopped at the government-run Indian Industrial and Training School in Forest Grove to confirm his support of off-reservation educational institutions and the forced assimilation of Indians into white society. Ironically, such efforts by Hayes and his administration, meant to aid Native Americans and resolve ongoing issues with Indigenous communities, had devastating and long-lasting effects on Oregonians whose children were removed from their homes and sent to boarding schools.

As this Oregon Encyclopedia article mentions, Hayes supported forced assimilation of Native Americans into white society through such boarding schools as the school he visited in Oregon, and it's important to acknowledge this history and its long-lasting impacts and enduring trauma.

There are several resources available to explore this topic further, including the following:

  *   National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=0432409297&e=14e6da8535>: A non-profit organization addressing the ongoing trauma created by the US Indian Boarding School policy. The website includes a resource database.
  *   Indian Boarding Schools<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=d164024254&e=14e6da8535>: Oregon Encyclopedia article.
  *   Chemawa Indian School<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=9ed18c6ec9&e=14e6da8535>: Oregon Encyclopedia article about the Indian Industrial and Training School on the campus of Pacific University at Forest Grove, which later became the Chemawa Indian School.
  *   Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=b30b00a505&e=14e6da8535> by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert.
  *   Pacific University Libraries developed an Indigenous History of Oregon<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=40d9f34e8a&e=14e6da8535> LibGuide that includes information about Boarding Schools<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=07f2cca98e&e=14e6da8535>
  *   Cultural Assimilation and Indian Boarding Schools<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=ec3c56c002&e=14e6da8535>: Lesson plan from the Oregon Department of Education that incorporates several additional resources.
  *   Chemawa Indian School<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=9a3f52de20&e=14e6da8535>: Overview from Oregon Department of Education that references additional resources.
  *   Crystal Starr Szczepanski's TEDxMcMinnville talk: chinuk wawa: Native American Indian Language<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=78fc53bdd2&e=14e6da8535>: In this talk, Crystal Starr Szczepanski teaches us about one of the traditional indigenous languages of the pacific northwest. She shares her personal journey in helping revitalize and heal chinuk wawa and she begins her talk by discussing government forced assimilation.
  *   The State Library has several print and digital historical items authored by the Salem Indian Training School if you are interested in historical primary sources. You can search our catalog<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=488ce970df&e=14e6da8535> and digital collections<https://oregon.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=91dd1172fce9a235a5e993c03&id=505ae3dc8c&e=14e6da8535>, or contact us for assistance at LibraryHelp.SLO at slo.oregon.gov<mailto:LibraryHelp.SLO at slo.oregon.gov>.

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