The Boarding School Experiment
๐ Fiction
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2012
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Examines Indian boarding school narratives and their impact on the Native literary tradition from 1879 to the presentIndian boarding schools were the lynchpins of a federally sponsored system of forced assimilation. These schools, located off-reservation, took Native children from their families and
Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience became heroes, bravely facing a monster not of their own making. Sometimes the monster swallowed them up. More often, though, the children fought the monster