Clyde Ellis, associate professor of history, has accepted an invitation to speak at a November public symposium about Indian boarding schools.
The symposium, at the University of California at Riverside, will include North America’s leading scholars in the study of the historical role of Indian boarding schools. The university’s Humanities Research Institute, Department of History and Department of American Indian Studies are sponsoring the symposium.
Ellis will discuss research associated with his first book, “To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920.” The book won the 1997 Gustavus Myers Award as the year’s outstanding book on racial intolerance in North America.