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Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890–2020 (Indigenous Education) by Williams, Samantha M. is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890–2020 (Indigenous Education) about?

"Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival illustrates how settler colonialism propelled U.S. government programs designed to assimilate generations of Native children at the Stewart Indian School (1890–1980). The school opened in Carson City, Nevada, in 1890 and embraced its mission to destroy the connections between Native children and their lands, isolate them from their families, and divorce them from their cultures and traditions. Newly enrolled students were separated from their families, had their appearances altered, and were forced to speak only English. However, as Samantha M. Williams uncovers, numerous Indigenous students and their families subverted school rules, and tensions arose between federal officials and the local authorities charged with implementing boarding school policies. The first book on the history of the Stewart Indian School, Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival reveals the experiences of generations of Stewart School alumni and their families, often in their own words. Williams demonstrates how Indigenous experiences at the school changed over time and connects these changes with Native American activism and variations in federal policy. Williams’s res

Author

Williams, Samantha M.

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496232014