By Sean Graham
Sean Graham talks with Caitlin Keliiaa, writer of Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Girls’s Labour and Resistance within the Bay Space Outing Program. They talk about the residential education system in the US, the objective of outing applications, and Indigenous younger girls and women’ home labour as a part of this system. In addition they chat in regards to the group constructed by the ladies, how they resisted of their workplaces, and program’s legacy.
Historic Headline of the Week
Cecily Hilleary, “Indian Boarding Colleges ‘Outings’: Apprenticeships or Indentured Servitude?” Voice of America, November 14, 2021.
Sean Graham is a cultural historian, an Adjunct Professor at Carleton College, and a contributing editor with Activehistory.ca
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