Changed forever : American Indian boarding-school literature / Arnold Krupat

Author: Krupat, Arnold
Additional Titles: American Indian boarding school literature
Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2018]-
Physical Description: volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Native traces

Contents

Volume 1: Part I. Hopi boarding-school autobiographies. Edmund Nequatewa's Born a chief -- Albert Yava's Big falling snow -- Don Talalyesva's Sun chief -- Polingaysi Qoyawayma's No turning back -- Helen Sekaquaptewa's Me and mine -- Fred Kabotie's Hopi Indian artist -- Part II. Navajo boarding-school autobiographies. Frank Mitchell's Navajo Blessingway singer -- Irene Stewart's A voice in her tribe -- Kay Bennett's Kaibah -- Stories of traditional Navajo life and culture -- George P. Lee's silent courage -- Appendix A. The Orayvi split -- Appendix B. The Navajo autobiographical canon -- Appendix C. Apache boarding-school autobiographies. Volume 2: Part 1. Dakota boarding school autobiographies -- Part II. Ojibwe boarding school autobiographies -- Part III. A range of boarding school autobiographies.

Summary

"Changed Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries. Arnold Krupat examines Hopi, Navajo, and Apache boarding-school narratives that detail these students' experiences. The book's analyses are attentive to the topics (topoi) and places (loci)of the boarding schools. Some of these topics are: (re-)Naming students, imposing on them the regimentation of Clock Time, compulsory religious instruction and practice, and corporal punishment, among others. These topics occur in a variety of places, like the Dormitory, the Dining Room, the Chapel, and the Classroom. Krupat's close readings of these narratives provide cultural and historical context as well as critical commentary. In her study of the Chilocco Indian School, K. Tsianina Lomawaima asked poignantly, "What has become of the thousands of Indian voices who spoke the breath of boarding-school life?" Changed Forever lets us hear some of them." -- Publisher's description

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ISBN

9781438469157 volume 1 hardcover alkaline paper
1438469152 volume 1 hardcover alkaline paper
9781438480077 volume 2 hardcover alkaline paper
1438480075 volume 2 hardcover alkaline paper
9781438469140 paperback
1438469144 paperback

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Endowment Note

Edward J. and Eleanor Black Nichols Library Endowment Fund

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