Away from Home
Subtitle: American Indian Boarding School Experiences
Contributors: Heard Museum (Corporate Author); Margaret L. Archuleta (Editor); Brenda J. Child (Editor); K. Tsianina Lomawaima (Editor)
Publisher: Heard Museum
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780934351621
Subjects: Off-reservation boarding schoo; Students & Student Life; History; Education; Education / Teaching; Social conditions; Off-reservation boarding schools; Indian students; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; United States
Notes: CONTENTS:

Part One: "A uniform course of study": Life at school -- "They gave us a number": Arrival -- "Making a willing worker": Academic and vocational instruction -- "Don't you suppose it's best for him to come home?": Health and homesickness -- "We shared a brotherhood": Connections to family and home -- "I was gonna rebel come hell or high water": Rebellion.

Part Two: "The honest facts concerning my race": Life beyond school -- "By the waters of the Minnehaha": Music and dance, pageants and princesses -- "The Indian is an artist": Art education -- "Show what an Indian can do": Sports -- "A nucleus of civilization": Families at Hampton Institute.
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