Returning Home : Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School / Farina King [and six others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Farina, author.

Language:

English

Navajo

Subjects (All):

Intermountain Indian School (Brigham City, Utah)--History.

Intermountain Indian School (Brigham City, Utah).

Navajo Indians--Education (Secondary)--Utah--Brigham City.

Navajo Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, [2023]

Language Note:

Foreword also in Navajo.

Summary:

"Returning Home features and contextualizes the creative works of Dine (Navajo) boarding school students at the Intermountain Indian School, which was the largest federal Indian boarding school between 1950 and 1984. Dine student art and poetry reveal ways that boarding school students sustained and contributed to Indigenous cultures and communities despite assimilationist agendas and pressures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword by Rena Dunn

Preface by Robert Dodson

Acknowledgments

Introduction. "Ná'áchą́ą́h háshíí' gíízh," or "Art Pulled Me Out": Intermountain Student Journeys Home Through Creative Expressions

1. Writing in Beauty: A History of Intermountain's Language Arts Program

2. Exploratory Experiences: A History of Intermountain's Visual Arts Program

3. Diné Bikéyah, or People's Sacred Lands

4. Family: K'é, or Kinship

5. School: Dził yá 'ǫłta', or "School in the Mountain"

Color Gallery

6. Global Awareness: Bíla'ashla'ii Diné, or "Beings with Five Fingers"

Conclusion: Finding a Way

Appendix: A Student's Voice-Learning from Diné Students of the Past by Terence Wride

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Authors.

Notes:

Based on the exhibit, Returning Home: The Art and Poetry of Intermountain Indian School, 1954-1984

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780816540921

0816540926

OCLC:

1280277055