"Away from Home" Exhibit to open!
Irving Archives and Museum opens Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories January 2021
Beginning in the 1870s, the US government attempted to educate and assimilate American Indians into "civilized" society by placing children-of all ages, from thousands of homes and hundreds of diverse tribes-in distant, residential boarding schools. Many were forcibly taken from their families and communities and stripped of all signs of "lndianness," even forbidden to speak their own language amongst themselves. Up until the 1930s, students were trained for domestic work and trade in a highly regimented environment. Many children went years without familial contact, and these events had a lasting, generational impact.
Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories explores off-reservation boarding schools in a kaleidoscope of voices.
Away from Home opens January 28, 2021 at Irving Archives and Museum.
Visit Irving and the Irving Archives and Museum have partnered to present History on the House, offering FREE museum admission throughout October in celebration of Arts and Culture Month and IAM’s award-winning season. In celebration of the partnership, IAM opened Destination Irving: The Making of a Convention Center. Centered on a large architectural model, the exhibition explores how the Irving Convention Center was designed and built and its role in the city’s visitor economy. This partnership gives residents and visitors an opportunity to explore Irving’s history while showing how tourism helps support the city’s cultural resources. Destination Irving: The Making of a Convention Center is on view at IAM through November 29, 2026. More here.
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