Nathan Sowry

Turning the Power

Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures

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Produktbeschreibung

In Turning the Power Nathan Sowry examines how Native American students from the boarding school system, with its forced assimilated education, became key cultural informants for anthropologists conducting field work during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9781496241924
• ISBN-10: 1496241924
• Artikelnr.: 70904343

Autorenporträt

Nathan Sowry is a reference archivist at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.    

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Happened Before (Bellevue, Nebraska Territory, 1862)
1. A Great Favorite at the Smithsonian: Tichkematse (Zuni, New Mexico
Territory, 1881)
2. One Who Clearly Understands the Thoughts and Ideas of the Indians:
William Jones (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1897)
3. We as a Race Cannot Be Wiped Out in a Short Time: Richard Davis (Colony,
Oklahoma Territory, 1905)
4. All the Information There Is to Be Got: D. C. Duvall (Browning, Montana,
1911)
5. We Can Get Fine Work Out—Better Than Any That’s Been Out on Indians:
James R. Murie (Pawnee, Oklahoma, 1911)
6. Making a Great Collection of Relics for My People: John V. Satterlee
(Keshena, Wisconsin, 1911)
7. A True Indian Is Someone Who Helps Their Race: Cleaver Warden
(Washington DC, 1918)
8. Both an Experienced Field Man and a Missionary among His People: Amos
Oneroad (Tokio, North Dakota, 1925)
9. Civilized Indians Exploring the Wilds of Alaska: Florence and Louis
Shotridge (Sitka, Alaska Territory, 1929)
Conclusion: What Happened After (Hoonah, Alaska, 2017)
Notes
Bibliography
Index