In the summers of 2022 and 2023, the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University, in partnership with the Tomaquag Museum, hosted free Black & Indigenous Histories Summer Institutes (BIHSI) for high school students. The Summer Institutes were designed within a restorative justice framework centering self-reflection, critical thinking, and reading against the grain to reframe how we understand history. This website is an archive of the BIHSI experience in 2022 and 2023.

Information about the 2025 program, including the application, is available on the Simmons Center website under the Youth-based Programming section.