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Away from home : American Indian boarding school experiences, 1879-2000 / edited by Margaret Archuleta, Brenda Child, and K. Tsianina Lomawaima ; contributing essays by John Bloom ... [et al.].

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Away from home : American Indian boarding school experiences, 1879-2000 / edited by Margaret Archuleta, Brenda Child, and K. Tsianina Lomawaima ; contributing essays by John Bloom ... [et al.].
Publication
Phoenix, Ariz. : Heard Museum, c2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Archuleta, Margaret, 1950-
  • Child, Brenda J., 1959-
  • Lomawaima, K. Tsianina, 1955-
  • Heard Museum.
Description
144 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
Shares the stories of American Indians surviving the institutional life of boarding schools, describing Native Americans' faith, love for their heritage, resilience, and ability to learn from hard times, in a volume featuring numerous photographs and illustrations.
Subject
  • Off-reservation boarding schools > United States > History
  • Indian students > United States > History
  • Indian students > United States > Social conditions
  • Discrimination in education > United States > History
  • Off-reservation boarding schools > United States > History > Pictorial works
  • Indian students > United States > History > Pictorial works
  • Indian students > United States > Social conditions > Pictorial works
  • Discrimination in education > United States > History > Pictorial works
  • United States > Race relations
  • United States > Social policy
  • United States > Race relations > Pictorial works
  • United States > Social policy > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
Illustrated works.
Note
  • Published in conjunction with the exhibition Remembering our Indian school days : the boarding school experience, which opened November 18, 2000 at the Heard Museum and will be on view through 2005.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-137) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Life at school / Brenda J. Child and K. Tsianina Lomawaima -- "By the waters of the Minnehaha" : music and dance, 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 civlization" : families at Hampton Institute / W. Roger Buffalohead and Paulette Fairbanks Molin.
ISBN
0934351627
LCCN
^^^00032012^
OCLC
  • 43936847
  • SCSB-11942745
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library