A case study of the American Indian boarding school movement : an oral history of Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial School

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    • Shillinger, Sarah

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A case study of the American Indian boarding school movement : an oral history of Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial School

Sarah Shillinger

Edwin Mellen Press, c2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-140) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Examines the successes and failures of an American Indian boarding school, and provides an understanding of one of the greatest tragedies of federal policy toward Native Americans.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Organizational History of Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial School
  • 2. "To Serve Them All My Life": A Teacher's Perspective of Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial School
  • 3. Mush College: Everyday Life at Saint Joseph's
  • 4. "To Raise These Poor Children to a Higher Level of Civilization than their Parents"
  • 5. I Am Still Menominee? The Ultimate Failure of Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial School
  • 6. Immigrants, Education, and the American Indian Boarding School Movement
  • Appendix A. Contact between the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions for 1904
  • Appendix B. Administrators of Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial School
  • Appendix C. Unedited Interviews from Chapter Two
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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