Since 1990, Nancy Carlson and other non-Native residents of the small town of Genoa, Nebraska, have hosted annual reunions for attendees and family members of the Genoa Indian School. Genoa was open from 1884 to 1934, one of the many Indian boarding schools that removed Native children from their families and subjected them to a strict assimilation program. Carlson and other Genoa residents have been working with Native communities to preserve and learn from Genoa’s troubled history.
