Haskell Institute: 19th Century Stories of Sacrifice and Survival

Dr. Theresa Milks HASKELL INSTITUTE: 19th CENTURY STORIES OF SACRIFICE AND SURVIVAL presents American Indian/Alaskan Native student stories from early days of Haskell, a federal boarding school founded in 1884. Milk takes a balanced look at the ordeals and successes of Native students as they struggled within a military, assimilationist educational envir0nment. Dr. Milks new research-based on letters, newspaper articles, photographs, and government documents-emphasizes individual stories. This book draws on other researchers to give the overall background of Native boarding schools, but additionally adds texture of day-to-day life as experienced by individuals. Milk recovers lost histories. She uncovers the close ties between Haskell and the University of Kansas-Lawrence community. Early supervisors of Haskell included KU chancellor James Marvin and Lawrence resident Charles Robinson, Kansas state governor and abolitionist leader.

Product details

• Authors: Theresa Milk
• Publisher: Mammoth
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780976177388
• ISBN: 978-0-9761773-8-8
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous