PHOENIX — The Heard Museum’s boarding school exhibit, which debuted more than 25 years ago and describes the experiences of Native Americans in federally operated, off-reservation schools, has become the most visited gallery at the museum.
Through black-and-white photographs and first-person accounts, “Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories” chronicles the U.S. government program beginning in the 1870s to assimilate Native American children into White American society by transporting them far away from their homes to boarding schools.
Each year the central Phoenix nonprofit museum honors the experiences of the thousands of indigenous children ripped from their communities to attend schools where many were abused and thousands died with a national day of remembrance.
