Children Left Behind
Subtitle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools
Contributors: Denise Giago (Illustrator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Clear Light Publishing
Published: August 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781574160864
Subjects: Indian children; United States; Off-reservation boarding schools; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Discrimination & Racism; Social Science; Sociology; Multicultural Education; Minority Studies - Ethnic American; History; Children's Studies; People of Color; Students & Student Life; Abuse of; Education
Description: Known as "residential schools" in Canada. Includes poems (poetry).

""Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools is a must read. Tim Giago, who spent his childhood at one of these schools, examines the unholy alliance between church and state that tried to destroy the culture and spirituality of generations of Indian children. Provocative, riveting, chilling, persuasive, and original, this book leaves the reader overwhelmed. Describing almost inexpressible cruelties and triumphs, Giago pulls us into the boarding school experience. He challenges Indian Country to co-exist with the truth of what actually happened at these schools. Only then can we heal and avoid acquiescence to a system that has crushed so many souls. The book is a triumph, and a major event in Indian education." Ryan Wilson, Oglala Lakota, President, National Indian Education Association.

"Children Left Behind is a sad story of a nation's best intentions gone awry. Tim Giago's personal accounts reveal an untold tragedy of abuse of helpless children by those who had the responsibility to protect them. To fully understand the calamity, you need only to visit the graveyards of the old boarding schools and see the hundreds of graves of Indian children who did not survive the misguided assimilation efforts." Richard B. Williams, Oglala Lakota, President & CEO, American Indian College Fund"--Amazon.ca description.