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The Yale Indian: The Education of Henry Roe Cloud

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Description for The Yale Indian: The Education of Henry Roe Cloud Paperback. A 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. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFJ; JFSL1; JNM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Honored in his own time as one of the most prominent Indian public intellectuals, Henry Roe Cloud (c. 1884–1950) fought to open higher education to Indians. Joel Pfister’s extensive archival research establishes the historical significance of key chapters in the Winnebago’s remarkable life. Roe Cloud was the first Indian to receive undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yale University, where he was elected to the prestigious and intellectual Elihu Club. Pfister compares Roe Cloud’s experience to that of other “college Indians” and also to African Americans such as W. E. B. Du Bois. Roe Cloud helped launch the Society of American ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
New Americanists
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822344216
SKU
V9780822344216
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About Joel Pfister
Joel Pfister is Professor of American Studies and English at Wesleyan University. He is the author of four books, including Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern, also published by Duke University Press, and Critique for What? Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies. He is a co-editor of Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America. ... Read more

Reviews for The Yale Indian: The Education of Henry Roe Cloud
“[A] strong work of psychobiography—well researched, written, and illustrated. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” - D. Steeples, Choice “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 ... Read more

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