UI professor to return documents to survivors of Native American boarding schools - The Daily Iowan

UI professor to return documents to survivors of Native American boarding schools - The Daily Iowan

In the dimly lit rooms of the National Archives, Joe Maxwell recalled digging through what he described as “the bowels” of the U.S. government as he and other student research assistants sifted through boxes full of paperwork as a part of Project Return, a nationwide project set to launch officially in October. The project’s goal is to return documents to the survivors of Native American boarding schools who were taken from their families and at…