Alternate Title(s)

Remembering our Indian schools

ISBN

0934351627

Statement of Responsibility

edited by Margaret Archuleta, Brenda Child, and K. Tsianina Lomawaima ; contributing essays by John Bloom ... [et al.].

Publication Information

Phoenix AZ : Heard Museum

Physical Description

144 p.: ill., ports. 28 cm.

Notes

Title from cover: Away from home : American Indian boarding school experiences : 1879-2000.

Contents

Foreward / Frank H. Goodyear, Jr. -- Part One: "A uniform course of study " - life at school / Brenda J. Child and K. Tsianina Lomawaima -- Introduction / Margaret L. Archuleta, Brenda J. Child, and K. Tsianina Lomawaima -- "They gave us a number" - arrival -- "Making a willing worker" - academic and vocational instruction -- "Don't you suppose it's best for him to come home?" - health and homesickness -- "We shared a brotherhood" - connections to home and family -- "I was gonna rebel come hell or high water" - rebellion -- Part Two: "The honest facts concerning my race" - life beyond school -- Introduction / K. Tsianina Lomawaima -- "By the Waters of Minnehaha" - music, pageants and princesses / Rayna Green and John Troutman -- "The Indian is an artist" - art education / Margaret L. Archuleta -- "Show what an Indian can do" - sports / John Bloom -- "A nucleus of civilization" - families at Hampton Institute / W. Roger Buffalohead and Paulette Fairbanks Molin -- Afterword / Brenda J. Child.