Restorative Practice as a Pathway for Healing from the Indian Boarding Schools and Indian Residential Schools

Restorative practices are a pathway to healing from the Indian Boarding Schools and Indian Residential Schools. Each person who is impacted will have a unique story to share. My cousin, Edi Cornelius Grosskopf, taught me circles to address intergenerational trauma and intergenerational love around the Indian Boarding Schools. My Great, Great Uncle Joshua was killed at Carlisle Indian Boarding School. Carlisle Indian Boarding School was used as an archetype for an estimated 523+ Indian Boarding Schools in the United States as well as a model for over 150 Indian Residential Schools in Canada. Each Indian Boarding School and Residential School had a cemetery on the campus for the children murdered. I use restorative practice to address intergenerational trauma and intergenerational strength among Native youth and others. This wound not only hurts Native peoples, but is a wound we, as all people of this world, need to heal from.