Washington State University Vancouver is offering a Native American Film Series at 5:30 p.m. April 4 to 6 in the Dengerink Administration building, room 110. The series is free and open to the public. Each evening opens with a 30-minute guest lecture at 5:30 p.m., followed by the film screening at 6 p.m. Each film in the series addresses Native American experiences with boarding schools.

• Wednesday, April 4, Older Than America
  Georgina Lightning, the film’s director and actress, will speak before the screening. In this contemporary drama of suspense, a woman’s haunting visions reveal a sinister plot to silence her mother from speaking the truth about the atrocities that took place at her Native American boarding school.
• Thursday, April 5, Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School
  Jacqueline Peterson, WSU Vancouver professor emerita of history, will speak before the screening. This documentary uncovers the dark history of U.S. Government policy which took Indian children from their homes, forced them into boarding schools, and enacted a policy of educating them in Western ways.
• Friday, April 6, The Only Good Indian
  Grace L. Dillon, associate professor of indigenous nations studies at Portland State University, will speak before the screening. In this film, set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teenaged Native American boy is taken from his family and forced to attend a distant Indian “training” school to assimilate into white society.

The film series is presented by the WSU History Club, the River Cities Anthropology Society, the Latina/o Student Association, the Native American Club, and the Diversity Council. For more information, call 360-546-9738. WSU Vancouver is located at 14204 N.E. Salmon Creek Ave. east of the 134th St. exit from either I-5 or I-205 and is accessible via bus.