Children of the dragonfly : Native American voices on child custody and education /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bensen, Robert, 1947-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2001.
Temas:
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation.
Interracial adoption > North America.
Indians of North America > Education.
Child welfare > North America.
Indians of North America > Ethnic identity.
Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord > Acculturation.
Adoption interraciale > Amérique du Nord.
Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord > Éducation.
Enfants > Protection, assistance, etc. > Amérique du Nord.
Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord > Identité ethnique.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General
Child welfare.
Interracial adoption.
Kulturelle Identität
Kind
Erziehung
Schulbildung
North America.
USA
Indianer.
Weiße.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pt. 1. Traditional stories and lives: To say "child" / Severt Young Bear (Lakota) and R.D. Theisz
  • The toad and the boy / Zitkala-S̈a (Yankton Sioux)
  • Oshkikwe's baby / Delia Oshogay (Chippewa)
  • The seven dancers / Michele Dean Stock (Seneca)
  • Goldilocks thereafter / Mary Ulmer Chiltoskey (Cherokee)
  • Two stories / Marietta Brady (Navajo).
  • pt. 2. Boarding and residential schools: From Stiya : or, a Carlisle Indian girl at home / Embe (Marianna Burgess)
  • Who am I? / Black Bear (Blackfeet)
  • As it was in the beginning / E. Pauline Johnson (Mohawk)
  • Black robes / Lee Maracle (Stoh:lo)
  • The prisoner of Haiku / Gordon D. Henry, Jr. (White Earth Chippewa)
  • The snakeman / Luci Tapahonso (Navajo)
  • The woman who fell from the sky / Joy Harjo (Muskogee)
  • pt. 3. Child welfare and health services: Problems that American Indian families face in raising their children, United States Senate, April 8 and 9, 1974
  • Five poems / Mary TallMountain (Athabaskan)
  • Missing sister / Virginia Woolfclan
  • Indian health / Lela Northcross Wakely (Potawatomi/Kickapoo)
  • From Indian killer / Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene)
  • The search for Indian / Milton Lee (Cheyenne River Sioux) and Jamie Lee
  • pt. 4. Children of the dragonfly: I wonder what the car looked like / Peter Cuch (Ute)
  • A letter to my grandmother / S.L. Wilde (Anishnaabe)
  • It goes something like this / Eric Gansworth (Onondaga)
  • Breeds and outlaws / Kimberly Roppolo (Cherokee/Choctaw/Creek)
  • Wetumka / Phil Young (Cherokee) and Robert Bensen
  • The long road home / Lawrence Sampson (Delaware/Eastern Band Cherokee)
  • When the heron speaks / Beverley McKiver (Ojibway)
  • Memory lane is the next street over / Joyce carlEtta Mandrake (White Earth Chippewa)
  • Lost tribe / Alan Michelson (Mohawk)
  • The connection / Patricia Aqiimuk Paul (Inupiaq)
  • Pushing up the sky / Terry Trevor (Cherokee/Delaware/Seneca)
  • Three dragonfly dream songs / Annalee Lucia Bensen (Mohegan/Cherokee).

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