Changed forever : American Indian boarding-school literature / Arnold Krupat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krupat, Arnold, author.

Series:

Native traces

SUNY series, Native traces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Off-reservation boarding schools--United States--Biography.

Off-reservation boarding schools.

Boarding school students--United States--Biography.

Boarding school students.

Indian students--United States--Biography.

Indian students.

Hopi Indians--Biography.

Hopi Indians.

Navajo Indians--Biography.

Navajo Indians.

United States.

Apache Indians--Biography.

Apache Indians.

Autobiography--Indian authors.

Autobiography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

American Indian boarding school literature

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2018]-

Summary:

The first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools. Changed Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries. Arnold Krupat examines Hopi, Navajo, and Apache boarding-school narratives that detail these students' experiences. The book's analyses are attentive to the topics ( topoi ) and places ( loci ) of the boarding schools. Some of these topics are: (re-)Naming students, imposing on them the regimentation of Clock Time, compulsory religious instruction and practice, and corporal punishment, among others. These topics occur in a variety of places, like the Dormitory, the Dining Room, the Chapel, and the Classroom. Krupat's close readings of these narratives provide cultural and historical context as well as critical commentary. In her study of the Chilocco Indian School, K. Tsianina Lomawaima asked poignantly, "What has become of the thousands of Indian voices who spoke the breath of boarding-school life?" Changed Forever lets us hear some of them. Arnold Krupat is Professor Emeritus, Sarah Lawrence College and the author of many books, including "That the People Might Live": Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy .

Contents:

Volume 1. [No special title].

Volume 1 contents: Hopi boarding-school autobiographies

Edmund Nequatewa's Born a chief

Albert Yava's Big falling snow

Don Talalyesva's Sun chief

Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No turning back

Helen Sekaquaptewa's Me and mine

Fred Kabotie's Hopi Indian artist

Navajo boarding-school autobiographies

Frank Mitchell's Navajo Blessingway singer

Irene Stewart's A voice in her tribe

Kay Bennett's Kaibah

Stories of traditional Navajo life and culture

George P. Lee's silent courage

Appendix A: The Orayvi split

Appendix B: Other Navajo life histories

Appendix C: Apache boarding-school autobiographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Krupat, Arnold. Changed forever.

ISBN:

9781438469157

1438469152

OCLC:

1022084350