Boarding School Seasons by Brenda J Child
Boarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twentieth century. At the heart of this book are the hundreds of letters written by parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota. These revealing letters show how profoundly entire families were affected by their experiences. Children, who often attended schools at great distances from their communities, suffered from homesickness, and their parents from loneliness. Parents worried continually about the emotional and physical health and the academic progress of their children. Families clashed repeatedly with school officials over rampant illnesses and deplorable living conditions and devised strategies to circumvent severely limiting visitation rules. Family intimacy was threatened by the schools' suppression of traditional languages and Native cultural practices. Although boarding schools were a threat to family life, profound changes occurred in the boarding school experiences as families turned to these institutions for relief during the Depression, when poverty and the loss of traditional seasonal economics proved a greater threat. Boarding School Seasons provides a multifaceted look at the aspirations and struggles of real people.
"A skillfully written, welcome addition to the scholarship on American Indian experience in federal boarding schoolsProfessor Child brings an important and revealing corpus of materials into public view and treats those materials with understanding and sensitivity."-Tsianina Lomawaima, author of They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School -- Tsianina Lomawaima
Brenda J. Child, a member of the Red Lake Ojibwe Nation, is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and the author of Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families: 1900-1940. She is also on the advisory board for the Penguin Library of American Indian History.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780803214804 |
| ISBN 10 | 0803214804 |
| Title | Boarding School Seasons |
| Author | Brenda J Child |
| Series | North American Indian Prose Award |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Year published | 1998-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 154 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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