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Children of the dragonfly : Native American voices on child custody and education /
Sometimes the losses of childhood can be recovered only in the flight of the dragonfly. Native American children have long been subject to removal from their homes for placement in residential schools and, more recently, in foster or adoptive homes. The governments of both the United States and Cana...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Sometimes the losses of childhood can be recovered only in the flight of the dragonfly. Native American children have long been subject to removal from their homes for placement in residential schools and, more recently, in foster or adoptive homes. The governments of both the United States and Canada, having reduced Native nations to the legal status of dependent children, historically have asserted a surrogate parentalism over Native children themselves. Children of the Dragonfly is the first anthology to document this struggle for cultural survival on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border. Through autobiography and interviews, fiction and traditional tales, official transcripts and poetry, these voices Seneca, Cherokee, Mohawk, Navajo, and many others weave powerful accounts of struggle and loss into a moving testimony to perseverance and survival. Invoking the dragonfly spirit of Zuni legend who helps children restore a way of life that has been taken from them, the anthology explores the breadth of the conflict about Native childhood. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 280 pages : illustrations) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-271). |
| ISBN: | 9780816548989 0816548986 |