off-reservation boarding schools

Chronicles the Native American's forced assimilation into white man's culture between 1880 and 1980 and provides a comprehensive study of the overall effects upon the lives of those children who were taken from their families.

Presents the history of Native American boarding schools in America, offering both negative and positive experiences, and discussing their legacy. Includes a chronology, biographical sketches, a glossary, and primary documents.

Draws from the letters of parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas, and the Flandreau school in South Dakota, to explore the emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the early twentieth century.

Text and photos describe the off-reservation boarding schools run by white Americans that many Native American children were forced to attend in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Shi-shi-etko and her brother Shin-chi are sent to an Indian residential school. Draws on interviews with survivors of Indian residential schools to describe daily life at the school where they were forced to use English names, study, work, and never speak to each other.

Examines the purpose and daily routine of the Indian schools, focusing on the eighty-four Sioux boys and girls who left their tribe in 1879 to become students at Carlisle Indian School, the first institution opened by the federal government for the education of Native American children.

In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.