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Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940
Brenda J. Child
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Description for Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940
Paperback. Looks 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. Series: North American Indian Prose Award Series. Num Pages: 154 pages, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
Boarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twentieth century. At the heart of this book are the hundreds of letters written by parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota. These revealing letters show how profoundly entire families were affected by their experiences. Children, who often attended schools at great distances from their communities, suffered from homesickness, and their parents from loneliness. Parents worried continually about the emotional and physical health and the academic ... Read more
Boarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twentieth century. At the heart of this book are the hundreds of letters written by parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota. These revealing letters show how profoundly entire families were affected by their experiences. Children, who often attended schools at great distances from their communities, suffered from homesickness, and their parents from loneliness. Parents worried continually about the emotional and physical health and the academic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Series
North American Indian Prose Award Series
Condition
New
Weight
250g
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803264052
SKU
V9780803264052
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Ref
99-1
About Brenda J. Child
Brenda J. Child is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota.
Reviews for Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940
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
Tsianina Lomawaima