Leupp Isolation Center Historical Site: Interconnections of Navajo and Japanese American..-Two Bears

Full Title: The Leupp Isolation Center Historical Site: Interconnections of Navajo and Japanese American History during World War II
The Old Leupp Boarding School was a federal Indian boarding school in operation on the southwest Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona from 1909-1942, but after the school closed, the United States War Department reused the OLBS as a Japanese Citizen Isolation Center in 1943 during World War II. Today, the site of Old Leupp exists as a historical archaeological site with potential for community based, collaborative, Indigenous archaeological or heritage projects. For this presentation, I explore this dual history of oppression and survivance at the Old Leupp Boarding School/Leupp Isolation Center.
Davina Ruth Two Bears is a Diné (Navajo) originally from Birdsprings, Arizona. She is currently a visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Postdoctoral Fellow at Swarthmore College. In 2019 Davina graduated from Indiana University and received a PhD in Anthropology with an emphasis in Archaeology and a PhD Minor in Native American and Indigenous Studies.

[@jackwardrop4994]

Thanks for posting. Kent Nerburn’s “the Wolf at Twilight” takes on this subject. Not in Arizona but rather in the Dakotas. A great novel.

[@callister4941]

thanks so much for posting!!! I live right by leupp