Boarding school blues : revisiting American Indian educational experiences / edited and with an introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, and Lorene Sisquoc.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trafzer, Clifford E.

Keller, Jean A., 1953-

Sisquoc, Lorene.

Series:

Indigenous education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Off-reservation boarding schools--History.

Off-reservation boarding schools.

Indian children--Relocation--United States--History.

Indian children.

Indian children--Education.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Indians of North America.

History.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

Social policy.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2006]

Summary:

Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience became heroes, bravely facing a monster not of their own making. Sometimes the monster swallowed them up. More often, though, the children fought the monster and grew stronger. This volume draws on the full breadth of this experience in showing how American Indian boarding schools provided both positive and negative influences for Native American children. The boarding schools became an integral part of American history, a shared history that resulted in Indians "turning the power" by using their school experiences to grow in wisdom and benefit their people.

The first volume of essays ever to focus on the American Indian boarding school experience, and written by some of the foremost experts and most promising young scholars of the subject, Boarding School Blues ranges widely in scope, addressing issues such as sports, runaways, punishment, physical plants, and Christianity. With comparative studies of the various schools, regions, tribes, and aboriginal peoples of the Americas and Australia, the book reveals both the light and the dark aspects of the boarding school experience and illuminates the vast gray area in between.

Contents:

Introduction: Origin and Development of the American Indian Boarding School System / Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, Lorene Sisquoc 1

1 Beyond Bleakness: The Brighter Side of Indian Boarding Schools, 1870-1940 / David Wallace Adams 35

2 "We Had a Lot of Fun, but of Course, That Wasn't the School Part": Life at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920 / Clyde Ellis 65

3 The Man on the Bandstand at Carlisle Indian Industrial School: What He Reveals about the Children's Experiences / Jacqueline Fear-Segal 99

4 Putting Lucy Pretty Eagle to Rest / Barbara C. Landis 123

5 Loosening the Bonds: The Rapid City Indian School in the 1920s / Scott Riney 131

6 Hail Mary: The Catholic Experience at St. Boniface Indian School / Tanya L. Rathbun 155

7 Learning Gender: Female Students at the Sherman Institute, 1907-1925 / Katrina A. Paxton 174

8 Through a Wide-Angle Lens: Acquiring and Maintaining Power, Position, and Knowledge through Boarding Schools / Margaret Connell Szasz 187

9 Indian Boarding Schools in Comparative Perspective: The Removal of Indigenous Children in the United States and Australia, 1880-1940 / Margaret D. Jacobs 202

10 The Place of American Indian Boarding Schools in Contemporary Society / Patricia Dixon, Clifford E. Trafzer 232

Richard Henry Pratt 1899

Boy students in military dress

Girls at Sherman Institute in dress uniforms

Girls' reading room

Boys with chickens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0803244460

0803294638

OCLC:

63703921

Publisher Number:

9780803244467

9780803294639