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Kevin Whalen - Native Students at Work - 9780295998268 - V9780295998268
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Native Students at Work

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Description for Native Students at Work Hardback. Series: Indigenous Confluences. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 2 maps, 20 b&w illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; JNAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.

Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young Native men and women in and around Los Angeles as domestic workers, farmhands, and factory laborers. For the first time, historian Kevin Whalen reveals the challenges these students faced as they left their homes for boarding schools and then endured an “outing program” that aimed to strip them of their identities and cultures by sending them to live and work among non-Native people. Tracing their ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Indigenous Confluences
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295998268
SKU
V9780295998268
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Kevin Whalen
Kevin Whalen is assistant professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Morris.

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