{"product_id":"the-yale-indian-9780822344216","title":"The Yale Indian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA biography of Henry Roe Cloud (c. 1884–1950), a Winnebago educator, scholar, and minister who was one of the most renowned Native Americans of his time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] strong work of psychobiography—well researched, written, and illustrated. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” - D. Steeples, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Joel Pfister’s study of the career of Henry Roe Cloud makes a useful and insightful contribution to the growing body of knowledge about the group of American Indian intellectuals and activists whose careers flourished in the early part of the twentieth century. . . . Roe Cloud’s career offers a study not of adaptation but of a specifically American kind of self-determination, in this case through a canny awareness of the crucial significance of class.” - Lucy Maddox, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] commendable study. . . . Pfister has drawn heavily on the extensive Roe Cloud correspondence in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to construct a convincing analysis of Roe Cloud's education, which he aptly deems ‘a cross-cultural encounter’ (p. 99).” - Margaret Connell Szasz,\u003ci\u003e Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The real value of this book, it seems, is that Pfister is a talented cultural studies scholar who offers a new framework for understanding Henry Roe Cloud. Further work on Roe Cloud will benefit immensely from the \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Indian\u003c\/i\u003e’s conceptual framework.” - Francis Flavin, \u003ci\u003eEthnohistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Yale Indian\u003c\/i\u003e advances a project begun in Joel Pfister’s \u003ci\u003eIndividuality Incorporated\u003c\/i\u003e and also breaks new ground. This book, based on archival research, is about the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Henry Roe Cloud (1884–1950), the first full-blood Indian to graduate from Yale (BA 1910, MA 1914). Mostly overlooked by historians, in his era he was recognized as one of the greatest Native leaders. Roe Cloud expanded the meaning of ‘Indian,’ in part by striving to develop a university-trained professional and managerial class of Native people at a time when the Carlisle Institute was educating Indians to work on Ford’s assembly lines. This is a rich and important book.”—\u003cb\u003eArnold Krupat\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eRed Matters: Native American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A provocative anatomy of the privileges and penalties of an elite early-twentieth-century liberal education for one accomplished Native American, Henry Roe Cloud, the “Yale Indian” of the title. Drawing upon a rich array of Roe Cloud’s personal and professional correspondence as well as published papers, Joel Pfister lays bare the effects of powerful and mutually sustaining operations of Indianization, individuation, sentimentalization, spiritualization, professionalization, and bureaucratization on Roe Cloud’s life course and chances. In the process, he brilliantly illuminates Roe Cloud’s strategic and successful self-fashioning as a classed, raced, sexed, and gendered modern subject at a particular place and time. As Indian-White history, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Indian\u003c\/i\u003e also extends and deepens our sense of the productivity of private life in forging and maintaining what Ann Stoler has termed the ‘tense and tender ties’ of U. S. Empire.”—\u003cb\u003eLaura Wexler\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U. S. Imperialism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] commendable study. . . . Pfister has drawn heavily on the extensive Roe Cloud correspondence in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to construct a convincing analysis of Roe Cloud's education, which he aptly deems ‘a cross-cultural encounter’ (p. 99).” -- Margaret Connell Szasz * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e“[A] strong work of psychobiography—well researched, written, and illustrated. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” -- D. Steeples * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Joel Pfister’s study of the career of Henry Roe Cloud makes a useful and insightful contribution to the growing body of knowledge about the group of American Indian intellectuals and activists whose careers flourished in the early part of the twentieth century. . . . Roe Cloud’s career offers a study not of adaptation but of a specifically American kind of self-determination, in this case through a canny awareness of the crucial significance of class.” -- Lucy Maddox * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e“The real value of this book, it seems, is that Pfister is a talented cultural studies scholar who offers a new framework for understanding Henry Roe Cloud. Further work on Roe Cloud will benefit immensely from the \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Indian\u003c\/i\u003e’s conceptual framework.” -- Francis Flavin * Ethnohistory *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Chapters in the Education of Henry Roe Cloud 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Yale Education 23\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sentimentalized Education 83\u003cbr\u003e 3. Cultural Incentive-and-Activism Education 127\u003cbr\u003e Coda. The Indian Ethos of Service 161\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. Sometimes History Needs Reminding 175\u003cbr\u003e Notes 177\u003cbr\u003e Index 243","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406054826327,"sku":"9780822344216","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822344216.jpg?v=1730494378","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-yale-indian-9780822344216","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}