The Spirit Doll Exhibit is a memorial honoring the Native American children who were forcibly removed from their families and community, put in residential boarding schools in the United States and Canada. The Spirit Dolls represent the children who died in the boarding schools never to return home — many buried in unmarked graves without their families being notified. This exhibit was a collective endeavor in which Native American communities and Indigenous Roots communities came together to make the Spirit Dolls that opened ways to release grief and pathways for healing. Some dolls represent members of the makers’ own families.
