Bringing History Home
We honor the Pawnee people on whose land the Genoa school was built and the thousands of children from at least forty tribal nations who attended the school. We offer this site to their descendants and communities, who have survived and persevered despite the US government’s attempt to eradicate Indian cultures and sovereignties.
The Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project is grateful to former
U.S. Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland for launching the Federal Indian Boarding School Truth Initiative, the first major federal investigation into the
U.S. government’s Indian boarding school policy. Our Project also commends former President Joe Biden for issuing a formal apology in October 2024 for the policy and program that separated thousands of Native American children from their families and subjected them to forced assimilation.
On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump and his Department of Government Efficiency terminated a National Endowment for the Humanities grant that funded the work of the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project. Despite this unfortunate setback, we will continue our project of decolonizing stories that took place in and around the Genoa Indian School.
