Indian Orphanages
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780700611195
Subjects: Child welfare; Indigenous peoples; Native Americans; Services For Children; Politics / Current Events; History: American; USA; Children's Studies; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Human Services; Native American; Government policy; History; Indian children; Indian orphanages; Institutional care; United States
Description: "The first book to focus exclusively on this subject, Marilyn Holt's study interweaves Indian history, educational history, family history, and child welfare policy to tell the story of Indian orphanages within the larger context of the orphan asylum in America.

She relates the history of these orphanages and the cultural factors that produced and sustained them, shows how orphans became a part of native experience after Euro-American contact, and explores the manner in which Indian societies have addressed the issue of child dependency."--BOOK JACKET.