From the boarding schools : Apache Indian students speak / Arnold Krupat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krupat, Arnold, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Off-reservation boarding schools.

Apache Indians--Biography.

Apache Indians.

Indian students--United States--Biography.

Indian students.

Indians of North America--History.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

182 pages 182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Apache Indian students speak

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Arnold Krupat's From the Boarding Schools: Apache Indians Speak presents for the first time the writings and autobiographies of Sam Kenoi, Dan Nicholas, and Vincent Natalish"-- Provided by publisher.

"Arnold Krupat's From the Boarding Schools makes available previously unheard Apache voices from the Indian boarding schools. It includes selections from two unpublished autobiographies by Sam Kenoi and Dan Nicholas, produced in the 1930s with the anthropologist, Morris Opler, as well as material by and about Vincent Natalish, a contemporary of Kenoi and Nicholas. Natalish was one of more than one hundred Apaches taken from Fort Marion to the Carlisle Indian School by its superintendent, Captain Richard Henry Pratt, in 1887. A considerable number of these students died at the school, and many who were sent home for illness or poor health did not recover. Natalish, however, remained at Carlisle and graduated in 1899. He married, had a son, and lived and worked in New York. He also actively sought the release of his relatives and other Apaches held prisoner at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Apache people have been telling and circulating stories among themselves for generations. But in contrast to their neighbors the Hopis and the Navajos, Apaches have produced relatively few written autobiographical narratives, and even fewer about their boarding school experiences. Supplementing the narratives with detailed cultural and historical commentary, From the Boarding Schools brings these lived experiences from the archives into current discourse. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Sam Kenoi's school years as told by himself

Dan Nicholas' school years as told by himself

Vincent Natalish : his schooling, life, and writing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496234063

1496234065

OCLC:

1311953569