Boarding School Blues

Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience became heroes, bravely facing a monster not of their own making. Sometimes the monster swallowed them up. More often, though, the children fought the monster and grew stronger. This volume draws on the full breadth of this experience in showing how American Indian boarding schools provided both positive and negative influences for Native American children. The boarding schools became an integral part of American history, a shared history that resulted in Indians "turning the power" by using their school experiences to grow in wisdom and benefit their people.The first volume of essays ever to focus on the American Indian boarding school experience, and written by some of the foremost experts and most promising young scholars of the subject, "Boarding School Blues" ranges widely in scope, addressing issues such as sports, runaways, punishment, physical plants, and Christianity. With comparative studies of the various schools, regions, tribes, and aboriginal peoples of the Americas and Australia, the book reveals both the light and the dark aspects of the boarding school experience and illuminates the vast gray area in between.Clifford E. Trafzer is a professor of American Indian history, director of public history, and director of graduate studies at the University of California, Riverside. His many books include "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow" and "Rivers Flow: A History of Native Americans". Jean A. Keller is an adjunct professor of American Indian studies at Palomar College in San Marcos, California, and a private cultural resources consultant. She is the author of "Empty Beds: Indian Student Health at Sherman Institute, 1902-1922". Lorene Sisquoc is the curator of the Sherman Indian Museum in Riverside, California. She teaches Native American traditions to high school students and instructs extension classes in Native American studies.

ISBN 0803244460   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780803244467 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher University of Nebraska Press   Weight (grammes) 513 Imprint University of Nebraska Press   Published in Lincoln Format Hardback   Series title Indigenous Education Publication date 10 Sep 2006   Height (mm) 229 Library of Congress 2006004484   Width (mm) 162 DEWEY 371.82997   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Introduction : origin and development of the American Indian boarding school system by Clifford E. Trafzer and Jean A. Keller and Lorene Sisquoc		1
1		Beyond bleakness : the brighter side of Indian boarding schools, 1870-1940 by David Wallace Adams		35
2		"We had a lot of fun, but of course, that wasn't the school part" : life at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920 by Clyde Ellis		65
3		The man on the bandstand at Carlisle Indian Industrial School : what he reveals about the children's experiences by Jacqueline Fear-Segal		99
4		Putting Lucy Pretty Eagle to rest by Barbara C. Landis		123
5		Loosening the bonds : the Rapid City Indian School in the 1920s by Scott Riney		131
6		Hail Mary : the Catholic experience at St. Boniface Indian School by Tanya L. Rathbun		155
7		Learning gender : female students at the Sherman Institute, 1907-1925 by Katrina A. Paxton		174
8		Through a wide-angle lens : acquiring and maintaining power, position, and knowledge through boarding schools by Margaret Connell Szasz		187
9		Indian boarding schools in comparative perspective : the removal of indigenous children in the United States and Australia, 1880-1940 by Margaret D. Jacobs		202
10		The place of American Indian boarding schools in contemporary society by Patricia Dixon and Clifford E. Trafzer		232

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