A new era of Indian education began in Kansas in 1879 with the opening of Haskell Indian boarding school in Lawrence. Haskell students pose for this photograph in ca. 1887. Haskell Indian Nations University, Bureau of Indian Affairs Museum Property Collection, Lawrence, Kansas

The Shifting Borders of Race and Identity

A Research and Teaching Project on the Native American and African American Experience

The Hall Center for the Humanities in Partnership with Haskell Indian Nations University • A Project Supported by the Ford Foundation

"The First and the Forced":
Indigenous and African American Intersections

November 9-11, 2006
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS