Negotiating assimilation and missionization in Indian Territory : Native Americans, the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, and boarding schools in Oklahoma, 1870s-1960s / Bryan C. Rindfleisch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rindfleisch, Bryan C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (U.S.)--History.

Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (U.S.).

Off-reservation boarding schools--Oklahoma--History.

Off-reservation boarding schools.

Indians of North America--Education--Oklahoma.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--Oklahoma.

Indians of North America--Missions--Oklahoma.

Indians of North America--Violence against--Oklahoma.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Negotiating assimilation & missionization in Indian Territory

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, WI : Marquette University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This book explores how Native American students, families, and communities negotiated federal assimilation policy and Catholic missionization in boarding schools in Indian Territory and Oklahoma during the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. It also grapples with modern-day repercussions from this boarding school history for both Native and Catholic communities in Oklahoma today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A Brief History of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions & Catholic Indian Boarding Schools in Oklahoma, 1870s-1960s

Family & Community Negotiations of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions and its' Schools in Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 1870s-1960s

Student Negotiations of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions and its' Schools in Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 1870s-1960s

A History of Violence against Native Students in the Bureau of Catholic Indian Mission Boarding Schools in Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 1870s-1960s

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781626000643

1626000646

OCLC:

1431051001