The Heart of It All: The Coeur d’Alene Jesuit Native Boarding School

Posted: April 12, 2024

By: History Department, College of Arts & Sciences and "Race, Racialization & Resistance in the U.S.,” a curricular project funded by the Mellon Foundation

Wednesday, April 24
4:30–5 p.m. | Reception
5–6:30 p.m. | Lecture and Q&A
Rolfe Community Room, Advancement and Alumni Building

Dr. Ryan W. Booth (member of the Upper Skagit Tribe), a postdoctoral fellow in the History Department at Washington State University–Pullman, presents this year’s Al Mann Lecture.

Dr. Booth researches Jesuit Native American Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest to examine the historical legacy of the boarding schools and to help identify gravesite locations and student identities within historical archives. In this talk, Dr. Booth examines the history of the Jesuit-Native American boarding school at DeSmet, Idaho as a case study. The boarding school among the Schitsu’umsh (Coeur d’Alene) operated from 1878-1974.

The Heart of It All The Coeur dAlene Jesuit-Native Boarding School

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