Laura Herlihy is an anthropologist, author, and lecturer at the University of Kansas Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She has worked mainly with the Indigenous Miskitu people of Honduras and Nicaragua. She is a board member of the Lawrence Indigenous Community Center.
Healing the Boarding School Wound in Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas, pop. 96,369, may seem an unlikely epicenter for intergenerational healing of the deep scars left behind by the legacy of government boarding schools for Indigenous children.
September 3, 2021