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Education at the edge of empire : negotiating Pueblo identity in New Mexico's Indian boarding schools /

"For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community, they were forced into an educational system that sought to erase their Indian identity as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gram, John R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]
Colección:Indigenous confluences.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: Eastern reforms encounter southwestern communities
  • The economics of education: the true cost of keeping the doors open
  • The consequences of competition: the fight to control the flow of Pueblo students
  • Geographies of imagination: competing understandings of people and place in the Southwest
  • Everyday encounters: daily life at the Albuquerque and Santa Fe Indian schools
  • The integration of worlds: what students and their communities made of the boarding school experience
  • Conclusion: the successful legacy of assimilation's failure
  • Appendix.