In this article, Julie Davis examines the narrative of "Indian Boarding Schools” through recent studies by David Wallace Adams, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Brenda Child, Sally Hyer, and Esther Burnett Horne. Through the use of archival research and oral interviews, Davis works to show the history of boarding schools from an American Indian perspective, in hopes that they will uncover the meaning of boarding school education for indian children, families, and communities, past and present.