Native Students at Work : American Indian Labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945 /

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Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young Native men and women in and around Los Angeles as domestic workers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Whalen, Kevin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.)
Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.) > History.
Indians of North America > Labour > History.
Indians of North America > Residential schools > History.
Indians of North America > Education > History.
Women household employees.
Off-reservation boarding schools.
Indians of North America > Social conditions.
Indians of North America > Employment.
Indian students.
Agricultural laborers.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
Internats pour Autochtones > Californie > Riverside > Histoire.
Indians of North America > California, Southern > Social conditions > 20th century.
Agricultural laborers > California, Southern > History > 20th century.
Women household employees > California > Los Angeles Region > History > 20th century.
Indians of North America > Employment > California > Los Angeles Region > History > 20th century.
Indian students > California, Southern > Social conditions > 20th century.
Indian students > Employment > California > Los Angeles Region.
Indian students > California > Riverside > History > 20th century.
Off-reservation boarding schools > California > Riverside > History.
Southern California.
California > Riverside.
California > Los Angeles Region.
Riverside (Calif.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young Native men and women in and around Los Angeles as domestic workers, farmhands, and factory laborers. For the first time, historian Kevin Whalen reveals the challenges these students faced as they left their homes for boarding schools and then endured an "outing program" that aimed to strip them of their identities and cultures by sending them to live and work among non-Native people. Tracing their journeys, Whalen shows how male students faced low pay and grueling conditions on industrial farms near the edge of the city, yet still made more money than they could near their reservations. Similarly, many young women serving as domestic workers in Los Angeles made the best of their situations by tapping into the city?s indigenous social networks and even enrolling in its public schools. As Whalen reveals, despite cruel working conditions and poor treatment, Native people used the outing program to their advantage whenever they could, forming urban indigenous communities and sharing money and knowledge gained in the city with those back home.?
Descripción Física:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9780295806662

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