Vanished in Hiawatha
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-2365-4 (ISBN)
Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (also known as the Hiawatha Insane Asylum) quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often requiring only the signature of a reservation agent. Only nine Native patients in the asylum’s history were committed by court order. Without interpreters, mental evaluations, or therapeutic programs, few patients recovered. But who cared about Indians in South Dakota?
After three decades of complacency, both the superintendent and the city of Canton were surprised to discover that someone did care, and that a bitter fight to shut the asylum down was about to begin. In this disturbing tale, Carla Joinson unravels the question of why this institution persisted for so many years. She also investigates the people who allowed Canton Asylum’s mismanagement to reach such staggering proportions and asks why its administrators and staff were so indifferent to the misery experienced by their patients.
Carla Joinson is a freelance writer who lives near Johnson City, Tennessee. She is the author of A Diamond in the Dust and Civil War Doctor: The Story of Mary Walker.
List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. Where Will All the Insane Indians Go?2. Life in an Asylum3. The Bad Start Begins4. Helpless5. A Superintendent in Trouble6. Which Way to Canton?7. The Reign of Harry Reid Hummer Begins8. Reforms and Canton Asylum9. Let the Investigations Begin10. Life among the Indians11. Another Sort of Prison12. The World Outside13. Hummer Can’t Keep Up14. Ripples in the Waters15. The Winds of Change16. The Gale BlowsEpilogueAfterthoughtsAcknowledgmentsAppendix A: Patients Treated at Canton AsylumAppendix B: Patients Interred in Canton Asylum CemeteryAppendix C: Patients Transferred to St. ElizabethsNotesBibliographyIndex
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.09.2020 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 20 photos, 3 appendixes, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-2365-9 / 1496223659 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-2365-4 / 9781496223654 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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