Product Description
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 and grew stronger. This volume draws on the full breadth of this experience in showing how American Indian boarding schools provided both positive and negative influence… More >>
Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
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#1 by Rie Usui on April 27, 2010 - 12:03 pm
Very precise. It deals with every aspect of boarding school education from its bitter history to an advantage it had on indigenous people.
Rating: 4 / 5