Description
Book SynopsisLooks at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the 20th century. This book focuses on the letters - written by parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota - that show how profoundly families were affected by their experiences.
Trade Review"A skillfully written, welcome addition to the scholarship on American Indian experience in federal boarding schools. Professor Child brings an important and revealing corpus of materials into public view and treats those materials with understanding and sensitivity."-Tsianina Lomawaima, author of They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School -- Tsianina Lomawaima
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Legacy of Boarding School Letters
Chapter
1 Star Quilts and Jim Thorpe
2 From Reservation to Boarding School
3 Train Time
4 Homesickness
5 Illness and Death
6 Working for the School
7 Runaway Boys, Resistant Girls
Conclusion
Appendixes
1 Red Lake Students Who Attended Nonreservation Schools Circa 1929
2 Flandreau Enrollment Figures, 1893-1939
3 Flandreau Enrollment Distributions by Tribe and by State, 1937-38
4 Haskell Institute Cemetery Burials, by Tribal Name on Tombstone
Notes
Bibliography
Index
