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Boarding School Blues Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences / edited and with an introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, and Lorene Sisquoc.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Indigenous Education
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Government relations.
- Indian children--Education.
- Indian children--Relocation--United States--History.
- Off-reservation boarding schools--History.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States--Social policy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Shows how American Indian boarding schools provided both positive and negative influences for Native American children. Offering comparative studies of the various schools, regions, tribes, and aboriginal peoples, this book reveals both the light and the dark aspects of the boarding school experience and illuminates the vast gray area in between.
- Contents:
- Copyright; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: Origin and Development of the American Indian Boarding School System; 1. Beyond Bleakness: The Brighter Side of Indian Boarding Schools, 1870–1940; 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; 3. The Man on the Bandstand at Carlisle Indian Industrial School: What He Reveals about the Children's Experiences; 4. Putting Lucy Pretty Eagle to Rest; 5. Loosening the Bonds: The Rapid City Indian School in the 1920s
- 6. Hail Mary: The Catholic Experience at St. Boniface Indian School7. Learning Gender: Female Students at the Sherman Institute, 1907–1925; 8. Through a Wide-Angle Lens: Acquiring and Maintaining Power, Position, and Knowledge through Boarding Schools; 9. Indian Boarding Schoolsin Comparative Perspective: The Removal of Indigenous Children in the United States and Australia, 1880–1940; 10. The Place of American Indian Boarding Schools in Contemporary Society; A
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610550814
- 9781280550812
- 1280550813
- 9780803257214
- 080325721X
- OCLC:
- 476151434
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