Boarding School Seasons (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
154
Utgivningsdatum
2000-02-01
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Förlag
University of Nebraska Press
Illustrationer
16 photographs
Dimensioner
226 x 152 x 10 mm
Vikt
272 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
23:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780803264052

Boarding School Seasons

American Indian Families, 1900-1940

av Brenda J Child
Häftad,  Engelska, 2000-02-01
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Boarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twentieth century. At the heart of this book are the hundreds of letters written by parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota. These revealing letters show how profoundly entire families were affected by their experiences. Children, who often attended schools at great distances from their communities, suffered from homesickness, and their parents from loneliness. Parents worried continually about the emotional and physical health and the academic progress of their children. Families clashed repeatedly with school officials over rampant illnesses and deplorable living conditions and devised strategies to circumvent severely limiting visitation rules. Family intimacy was threatened by the schools' suppression of traditional languages and Native cultural practices. Although boarding schools were a threat to family life, profound changes occurred in the boarding school experiences as families turned to these institutions for relief during the Depression, when poverty and the loss of traditional seasonal economics proved a greater threat. Boarding School Seasons provides a multifaceted look at the aspirations and struggles of real people.
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"A skillfully written, welcome addition to the scholarship on American Indian experience in federal boarding schools. Professor Child brings an important and revealing corpus of materials into public view and treats those materials with understanding and sensitivity."-Tsianina Lomawaima, author of They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School -- Tsianina Lomawaima

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Brenda J. Child is an associate professor and chair of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Legacy of Boarding School Letters Chapter 1 Star Quilts and Jim Thorpe 2 From Reservation to Boarding School 3 Train Time 4 Homesickness 5 Illness and Death 6 Working for the School 7 Runaway Boys, Resistant Girls Conclusion Appendixes 1 Red Lake Students Who Attended Nonreservation Schools Circa 1929 2 Flandreau Enrollment Figures, 1893-1939 3 Flandreau Enrollment Distributions by Tribe and by State, 1937-38 4 Haskell Institute Cemetery Burials, by Tribal Name on Tombstone Notes Bibliography Index

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