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Pipestone : my life in an Indian boarding school / Adam Fortunate Eagle ; afterword by Laurence M. Hauptman.
- Title
- Pipestone : my life in an Indian boarding school / Adam Fortunate Eagle ; afterword by Laurence M. Hauptman.
- Author
- Fortunate Eagle, Adam, 1929-
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Hauptman, Laurence M.
- Description
- xviii, 193 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers a memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. He lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist vision was reshaping the federal boarding school system to promote greater respect for Native cultures and traditions. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a journey into his childhood and the inner world of the boarding school. Along the way, he shares anecdotes of dormitory culture, student pranks, and warrior games. Although Fortunate Eagle recognizes Pipestone's shortcomings, he describes his time there as nothing less than "a little bit of heaven."
- Subject
- Fortunate Eagle, Adam, 1929- > Childhood and youth
- Pipestone Indian Industrial Training School > History
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1893-1952
- Indian students > Pipestone > Biography
- Indians of North America > Biography
- Off-reservation boarding schools > Pipestone > History > 20th century
- Indians of North America > Education > Pipestone
- Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > Pipestone
- Pipestone (Minn.) > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-191)..
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Life at Pipestone Indian Boarding School, March 1935-June 1945 -- Life after Pipestone Indian Boarding School -- App. 1. Excerpt from "The history of Pipestone Indian School" / by Gaylord V. Reynolds -- App. 2. A brief history of "The Pipestone Indian School," courtesy Pipestone County Museum.
- ISBN
- 9780806141145 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 080614114X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009041302
- OCLC
- 455871454
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library