Jerilyn DeCoteau (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) offers this slide presentation about the federal government’s policy of family separation and forced assimilation of Native children and the ongoing impacts experienced by Native American families today. Jerilyn is co-director of Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, a program of Friends Peace Teams. She is past president of the board of directors of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. She currently serves on the supreme courts of the Kiowa Nation of Oklahoma and the San Ildefonso Pueblo.

This is a virtual presentation. Please register for the zoom link.

Note the event starts at 6-7:30 pm Mountain Time, or 8-9:30 Eastern Time