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Indian Play : Indigenous Identities at Bacone College /

"When Indian University--now Bacone College--opened its doors in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1880, it was a small Baptist institution designed to train young Native Americans to be teachers and Christian missionaries among their own people and to act as agents of cultural assimilation. F...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neuman, Lisa Kay, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Creating an Indian University; 2. Images of Indianness; 3. "The Dream of an Indian Princess"; 4. Indian Education in a Changing America; 5. Marketing Culture; 6. Painting Culture; 7. Being Indian at School; 8. The Meanings of Indianness.