Agents of survivance : indigenous women teachers in the boarding school era / Anne Ruggles Gere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gere, Anne Ruggles, 1944- Author.

Series:

Indigenous education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian women teachers--United States.

Indian women teachers.

Off-reservation boarding schools--United States.

Off-reservation boarding schools.

Indians of North America--Education--United States--History--19th century.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Education--United States--History--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 274 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Agents of Survivance examines how Native American children survived the removal from their communities during the boarding school era via the efforts of four Native American women teachers: Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, Angel DeCora, and Ella Deloria"-- Provided by publisher.

"In Agents of Survivance Anne Ruggles Gere complicates and enriches established accounts of the Indian boarding school era and what preceded it by looking closely at the largely ignored Indigenous women teachers in these schools. Focusing on Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, Angel DeCora, and Ella Deloria, Gere shows how these and many other Indian women teachers subversively resisted assimilation with tribal presence, relationality, connection to land, rejection of victimhood, and maintenance of cultural traditions, art, and languages. Their vulnerable positions in schools directed by Euro-Americans necessitated that their contributions be subversive, nearly invisible. Despite this, they developed policies and practices that were passed to Indian students who in turn became teachers of the next generation of Indian students, and many of their innovations inform contemporary movements toward sovereignty for Indian education. Indispensable for future research, Agents of Survivance includes two appendixes drawn from Bureau of Indian Affairs records documenting dozens of Native women teachers, as well as Native women who worked in boarding schools doing laundry, kitchen work, dormitory cleaning, and sewing"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The emergence of Indian education

Indigenous women teachers

Winnemucca, word warrior

The Peabody Institute

Alice Callahan, child of removal

Alice Callahan and relational survivance

Angel DeCora and "Indian art"

Angel DeCora's art of survivance

Ella Deloria and Indian progress

Ella Deloria's temporal imagination

Legacies of survivance

Toward educational sovereignty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496244987

1496244982

OCLC:

1520908122