The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue - Voices and Images from Sherman Institute

Informationen zum Autor Clifford E. Trafzer (Wyandot) is a professor of American History and the Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs at the University of California, Riverside. He has written and edited several books, including Boarding School Blues, Native Universe , and Death Stalks the Yakama. Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert (Hopi), an assistant professor of American Indian Studies and History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author of Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929 (University of Nebraska Press, 2010), and co-produced a thirty-minute documentary film on the Hopi boarding school experience entitled "Beyond the Mesas" (www.beyondthemesas.com). Lorene Sisquoc (Cuhilla/Apache) is Curator of the Sherman Indian School Museum in Riverside, California. She teaches Native American Traditions at Sherman Indian High School, and is a co-editor of Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences. Klappentext The first collection of writings and images focused on an off-reservation Indian boarding school, The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue shares the fascinating story of this flagship institution. The contributors to the volume tell the story of of how the US government worked to transform American Indian students into productive farmers, carpenters, homemakers, nurses, cooks, and seamstresses, and how most students survived the agenda of cultural genocide to benefit themselves and the well-being of their communities.

Product details

• Authors: Clifford E. (EDT)/ Gilbert Trafzer
• Assisted by: Matthew Gilbert (Editor), Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert (Editor), Lorene Sisquoc (Editor), Clifford Trafzer (Editor), Clifford E. Trafzer (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780870716935
• ISBN: 978-0-87071-693-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: First Peoples: New Directions; First Peoples: New Directions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Amerikanische Geschichte, USA Westen, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Native American, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), History - General History