'Still here': Tulalip boarding school descendants celebrate resilience
TULALIP — Whenever she writes about the history of the Tulalip Tribes, Tessa Campbell starts by explaining the boarding schools.
Her people’s history stretches back much further than the 1850s, when the first iteration of the Tulalip school opened as a Catholic mission. But the trauma the school caused for its students has affected every aspect of life for generations of tribal members, said Campbell, the former senior curator with the Hibulb Cultural Center.
That type of trauma “sticks to you,” she said.
On Friday at a gathering for the National Day of Remembrance for U.S. Indian Boarding Schools, Campbell told friends and family that now is the time to “collectively heal together from this past trauma and pain.”
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