“Kill the Indian, save the man.” In Captain Richard Henry Pratt’s speech, he used the now well-known phrase, “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” thus, illuminating his philosophy of assimilation. The speech was delivered in 1892 during the National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Denver, Colorado. For five consecutive generations, from roughly 1880 to 1980, Native American children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools. This movement was called The Boarding School Solution. In “Survival and Loss – Indigenous Boarding Schools,” participants examine the events leading up to this action and the goals of the US government program. Examining primary document photos in their historical context help participants to make sense of this genocide and the effects that Native American Boarding Schools have on Indigenous peoples today. Memoirs of program survivors provide insight to their journey as well as a connection to our journey in our lives. Join Kim Quigley in uncovering our own life topics as we relive the boarding school survivors’ stories through photographs, their poetry, and their memoirs.