Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival

A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890–2020

Samantha M. Williams (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

334 Seiten

2022
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-2336-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Samantha M. Williams is a writer and historian who focuses on the history of the Native American boarding school system. She earned a PhD in history from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and served as a research consultant for the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note on Terminology
Introduction: The Stewart Indian School in Context
1. Discipline, Negotiation, and Protest, 1890–1925
2. Progressive Policies and Assimilationist Practices, 1925–1948
3. Termination, Relocation, and the Special Navajo Program, 1946–1959
4. Stagnation, Self-Determination, and Reform, 1960–1980
5. Reclaiming the Stewart Indian School, 1980–2019
Conclusion: The Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Indigenous Education
Zusatzinfo	30 photographs, 9 tables, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4962-2336-5 / 1496223365
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-2336-4 / 9781496223364
Zustand	Neuware