Author: Clifford E. TrafzerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803294639
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An in depth look at boarding schools and their effect on the Native students.
Boarding School Blues
Author: Clifford E. TrafzerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803294639
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An in depth look at boarding schools and their effect on the Native students.
Indian Blues
Author: John W. TroutmanPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806150025
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and manipulate those same policy initiatives. Why did the practice of music generate fear among government officials and opportunity for Native peoples? In this innovative study, John W. Troutman explores the politics of music at the turn of the twentieth century in three spheres: reservations, off-reservation boarding schools, and public venues such as concert halls and Chautauqua circuits. On their reservations, the Lakotas manipulated concepts of U.S. citizenship and patriotism to reinvigorate and adapt social dances, even while the federal government stepped up efforts to suppress them. At Carlisle Indian School, teachers and bandmasters taught music in hopes of imposing their “civilization” agenda, but students made their own meaning of their music. Finally, many former students, armed with saxophones, violins, or operatic vocal training, formed their own “all-Indian” and tribal bands and quartets and traversed the country, engaging the market economy and federal Indian policy initiatives on their own terms. While recent scholarship has offered new insights into the experiences of “show Indians” and evolving powwow traditions, Indian Blues is the first book to explore the polyphony of Native musical practices and their relationship to federal Indian policy in this important period of American Indian history.
Boarding School Seasons
Author: Brenda J. ChildPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803212305
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Looks at the experiences of children at three off-reservation Indian boarding schools in the early years of the twentieth century.
Boarding School Blues
Author: Clifford E. TrafzerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803244460
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
An in depth look at boarding schools and their effect on the Native students.
Pipestone
Author: Adam Fortunate EaglePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806184256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a “contrary warrior” by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier’s pluralist vision was reshaping the federal boarding school system to promote greater respect for Native cultures and traditions. But this book is hardly a dry history of the late boarding school era. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a delightful journey into his childhood and the inner world of the boarding school. Along the way, he shares anecdotes of dormitory culture, student pranks, and warrior games. Although Fortunate Eagle recognizes Pipestone’s shortcomings, he describes his time there as nothing less than “a little bit of heaven.” Were all Indian boarding schools the dispiriting places that history has suggested? This book allows readers to decide for themselves.
Children Left Behind
Author: Tim A. GiagoPublisher: Clear Light Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Known as "residential schools" in Canada. Includes poems (poetry).
American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930
Author: Michael C. ColemanPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604730098
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Drawn from Native American autobiographical accounts, a study revealing white society's program of civilizing American Indian schoolchildren
Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press
Author: Jacqueline EmeryPublisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496219597
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, selected by Choice Winner of the Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press is the first comprehensive collection of writings by students and well-known Native American authors who published in boarding school newspapers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Students used their acquired literacy in English along with more concrete tools that the boarding schools made available, such as printing technology, to create identities for themselves as editors and writers. In these roles they sought to challenge Native American stereotypes and share issues of importance to their communities. Writings by Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), Charles Alexander Eastman, and Luther Standing Bear are paired with the works of lesser-known writers to reveal parallels and points of contrast between students and generations. Drawing works primarily from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Pennsylvania), the Hampton Institute (Virginia), and the Seneca Indian School (Oklahoma), Jacqueline Emery illustrates how the boarding school presses were used for numerous and competing purposes. While some student writings appear to reflect the assimilationist agenda, others provide more critical perspectives on the schools’ agendas and the dominant culture. This collection of Native-authored letters, editorials, essays, short fiction, and retold tales published in boarding school newspapers illuminates the boarding school legacy and how it has shaped Native American literary production.
The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue
Author: Clifford E. TrafzerPublisher: First Peoples: New Directions
ISBN: 9780870716935
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In 1902 the Federal Government opened the flagship Sherman Institute, an influential off-reservation boarding school in Riverside, California, to transform American indian students into productive farmers, carpenters, homemakers, nurses, cooks, and seamstresses. Indian students built the school and worked there daily. The book draws on sources held at the Sherman Institute Museum.
This Benevolent Experiment
Author: Andrew John WoolfordPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803284411
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2017 At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the "Indian problem" in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial subjects, the schools were ultimately a means for eliminating Indigenous communities as obstacles to land acquisition, resource extraction, and nation-building. Andrew Woolford analyzes the formulation of the "Indian problem" as a policy concern in the United States and Canada and examines how the "solution" of Indigenous boarding schools was implemented in Manitoba and New Mexico through complex chains that included multiple government offices with a variety of staffs, Indigenous peoples, and even nonhuman actors such as poverty, disease, and space. The genocidal project inherent in these boarding schools, however, did not unfold in either nation without diversion, resistance, and unintended consequences. Inspired by the signing of the 2007 Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement in Canada, which provided a truth and reconciliation commission and compensation for survivors of residential schools, This Benevolent Experiment offers a multilayered, comparative analysis of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Because of differing historical, political, and structural influences, the two countries have arrived at two very different responses to the harm caused by assimilative education.