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Assimilation, resilience, and survival : a history of the Stewart Indian School, 1890-2020 / Samantha M. Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Indigenous educationPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]Description: 1 online resource (xv, 311 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1496232011
  • 9781496232014
  • 9781496232007
  • 1496232003
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Assimilation, resilience, and survival.DDC classification:
  • 371.829/97079357 23
LOC classification:
  • E97.6.C24 W55 2022
Other classification:
  • SOC021000 | EDU016000
Online resources:
Contents:
The Stewart Indian School in Context -- Discipline, Negotiation, and Protest, 1890-1925 -- Progressive Policies and Assimilationist Practices, 1925-1948 -- Termination, Relocation, and the Special Navajo Program, 1946-1959 -- Stagnation, Self-Determination, and Reform, 1960-1980 -- Reclaiming the Stewart Indian School, 1980-2019 -- The Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum.
Summary: "Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival illustrates how settler colonialism propelled U.S. government programs designed to assimilate generations of Native children at the Stewart Indian School (1890-1980). The school opened in Carson City, Nevada, in 1890 and embraced its mission to destroy the connections between Native children and their lands, isolate them from their families, and divorce them from their cultures and traditions. Newly enrolled students were separated from their families, had their appearances altered, and were forced to speak only English. However, as Samantha M. Williams uncovers, numerous Indigenous students and their families subverted school rules, and tensions arose between federal officials and the local authorities charged with implementing boarding school policies. The first book on the history of the Stewart Indian School, Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival reveals the experiences of generations of Stewart School alumni and their families, often in their own words. Williams demonstrates how Indigenous experiences at the school changed over time and connects these changes with Native American activism and variations in federal policy. Williams's research uncovers numerous instances of abuse at Stewart, and Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival addresses both the trauma of the boarding school experience and the resilience of generations of students who persevered there under the most challenging of circumstances."-- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Stewart Indian School in Context -- Discipline, Negotiation, and Protest, 1890-1925 -- Progressive Policies and Assimilationist Practices, 1925-1948 -- Termination, Relocation, and the Special Navajo Program, 1946-1959 -- Stagnation, Self-Determination, and Reform, 1960-1980 -- Reclaiming the Stewart Indian School, 1980-2019 -- The Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum.

"Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival illustrates how settler colonialism propelled U.S. government programs designed to assimilate generations of Native children at the Stewart Indian School (1890-1980). The school opened in Carson City, Nevada, in 1890 and embraced its mission to destroy the connections between Native children and their lands, isolate them from their families, and divorce them from their cultures and traditions. Newly enrolled students were separated from their families, had their appearances altered, and were forced to speak only English. However, as Samantha M. Williams uncovers, numerous Indigenous students and their families subverted school rules, and tensions arose between federal officials and the local authorities charged with implementing boarding school policies. The first book on the history of the Stewart Indian School, Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival reveals the experiences of generations of Stewart School alumni and their families, often in their own words. Williams demonstrates how Indigenous experiences at the school changed over time and connects these changes with Native American activism and variations in federal policy. Williams's research uncovers numerous instances of abuse at Stewart, and Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival addresses both the trauma of the boarding school experience and the resilience of generations of students who persevered there under the most challenging of circumstances."-- Provided by publisher

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 14, 2022).

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