Vanished in Hiawatha : the story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians /

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"Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians 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, oft...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Joinson, Carla (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Temas:
Canton Asylum for Insane Indians.
Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
Psychiatric hospitals > South Dakota > History.
Indians of North America > Mental health services > South Dakota.
Indians, Treatment of > North America.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Hospital care.
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Hospitals, Federal > history
Indians, North American > history
Mental Disorders > therapy
Hospitalization
Commitment of Mentally Ill
Attitudes envers les Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord.
Maladies mentales > Traitement.
Soins hospitaliers.
Internement (Psychiatrie)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
MEDICAL > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention
Mental illness > Treatment
Hospital care
Indians of North America > Mental health services
Indians, Treatment of
Psychiatric hospitals
South Dakota
North America
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Where will all the insane Indians go?
  • Life in an asylum
  • The bad start begins
  • Helpless
  • A superintendent in trouble
  • Which way to Canton?
  • The reign of Harry Reid Hummer begins
  • Reforms and Canton Asylum
  • Let the investigations begin
  • Life among the Indians
  • Another sort of prison
  • The world outside
  • Hummer can't keep up
  • Ripples in the waters
  • The winds of change
  • The gale blows
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A: Patients treated at Canton Asylum
  • Appendix B: Patients interred in Canton Asylum Cemetery
  • Appendix C: Patients transferred to St. Elizabeths.

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