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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author: Norton's Literary Advertiser
Author: The History of the Negro Church
Author: Carter Godwin WoodsonPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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The Teaching Elder
Author: William MACCLURE (Presbyterian Minister, of Londonderry.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Church Index: A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise, Kensington
Author: William PepperellPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465559779
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 415
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One Hundred Years of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Author: James Walker HoodPublisher:
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Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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The American Jewish Experience
Author: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Center for the Study of the American Jewish ExperiencePublisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN: 9780841909342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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The Diocese of Fort Wayne, 1857-September 1907
Author: Herman Joseph AlerdingPublisher:
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Category : Fort Wayne (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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History of the Genesee Country (Western New York)
Author: Lockwood Richard DotyPublisher:
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Category : Genesee region, New York
Languages : en
Pages : 651
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The Thomas Indian School and the "Irredeemable" Children of New York
Author: Keith R. BurichPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815653581
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The story of the Thomas Indian School has been overlooked by history and historians even though it predated, lasted longer, and affected a larger number of Indian children than most of the more well-known federal boarding schools. Founded by the Presbyterian missionaries on the Cattaraugus Seneca Reservation in western New York, the Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children, as it was formally named, shared many of the characteristics of the government-operated Indian schools. However, its students were driven to its doors not by Indian agents, but by desperation. Forcibly removed from their land, Iroquois families suffered from poverty, disease, and disruptions in their traditional ways of life, leaving behind many abandoned children. The story of the Thomas Indian School is the story of the Iroquois people and the suffering and despair of the children who found themselves trapped in an institution from which there was little chance for escape. Although the school began as a refuge for children, it also served as a mechanism for “civilizing” and converting native children to Christianity. As the school’s population swelled and financial support dried up, the founders were forced to turn the school over to the state of New York. Under the State Board of Charities, children were subjected to prejudice, poor treatment, and long-term institutionalization, resulting in alienation from their families and cultures. In this harrowing yet essential book, Burich offers new and important insights into the role and nature of boarding schools and their destructive effect on generations of indigenous populations.