{"product_id":"boarding-school-seasons-9780803264052","title":"Boarding School Seasons","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooks 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Legacy of Boarding School Letters\u003cbr\u003eChapter\u003cbr\u003e1 Star Quilts and Jim Thorpe\u003cbr\u003e2 From Reservation to Boarding School\u003cbr\u003e3 Train Time\u003cbr\u003e4 Homesickness\u003cbr\u003e5 Illness and Death\u003cbr\u003e6 Working for the School\u003cbr\u003e7 Runaway Boys, Resistant Girls\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eAppendixes\u003cbr\u003e1 Red Lake Students Who Attended Nonreservation Schools Circa 1929\u003cbr\u003e2 Flandreau Enrollment Figures, 1893-1939\u003cbr\u003e3 Flandreau Enrollment Distributions by Tribe and by State, 1937-38\u003cbr\u003e4 Haskell Institute Cemetery Burials, by Tribal Name on Tombstone\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405266919767,"sku":"9780803264052","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803264052.jpg?v=1730489347","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/boarding-school-seasons-9780803264052","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}