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- Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press
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- 2017
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
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Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press is the first comprehensive collection of writings by students and well-known Native American authors who published in boarding school newspapers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Students used their acquired literacy in English along with more concrete tools that the boarding schools made available, such as printing technology, to create identities for themselves as editors and writers. In these roles they sought to challenge Native American stereotypes and share issues of importance to their communities.
Writings by Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), Charles Eastman, and Luther Standing Bear are paired with the works of lesser-known writers to reveal parallels and points of contrast between students and generations. Drawing works primarily from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Pennsylvania), the Hampton Institute (Virginia), and the Seneca Indian School (Oklahoma), Jacqueline Emery illustrates how the boarding school presses were used for numerous and competing purposes. While some student writings appear to reflect the assimilationist agenda, others provide more critical perspectives on the schools’ agendas and the dominant culture. This collection of Native-authored letters, editorials, essays, short fiction, and retold tales published in boarding school newspapers illuminates the boarding school legacy and how it has shaped, and continues to shape, Native American literary production.
Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press is the first comprehensive collection of writings by students and well-known Native American authors who published in boarding school newspapers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Students used their acquired literacy in English along with more concrete tools that the boarding schools made available, such as printing technology, to create identities for themselves as editors and writers. In these roles they sought to challenge Native American stereotypes and share issues of importance to their communities.
Writings by Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša), Charles Eastman, and Luther Standing Bear are paired with the works of lesser-known writers to reveal parallels and points of contrast between students and generations. Drawing works primarily from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (Pennsylvania), the Hampton Institute (Virginia), and the Seneca Indian School (Oklahoma), Jacqueline Emery illustrates how the boarding school presses were used for numerous and competing purposes. While some student writings appear to reflect the assimilationist agenda, others provide more critical perspectives on the schools’ agendas and the dominant culture. This collection of Native-authored letters, editorials, essays, short fiction, and retold tales published in boarding school newspapers illuminates the boarding school legacy and how it has shaped, and continues to shape, Native American literary production.
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- List of Illustrations
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-32
- Part 1 Writings by Boarding School Students
- Letters
- Letter to Laura, 1880
- pp. 37-38
- Letter to the Editors, 1881
- pp. 38-39
- Letter to Susan Longstreth, 1881
- pp. 39-40
- Letter by an Apprentice, 1880
- pp. 41-42
- Letter on Baltimore, 1881
- pp. 43-44
- Letter to Father, 1882
- pp. 44-46
- Editorials
- Hallaquah Editorial, December 1879
- pp. 49-50
- Hallaquah Editorial, February 1880
- pp. 50-51
- Hallaquah Editorial, January 1881
- pp. 52-53
- Hallaquah Editorial, April 1881
- pp. 53-54
- Hallaquah Editorial, May 1881
- pp. 53-54
- School News Editorial, June 1880
- pp. 55-56
- School News Editorial, July 1880
- pp. 56-57
- School News Editorial, August 1880
- pp. 57-58
- School News Editorial, January 1881
- pp. 59-60
- Essays
- An Indian Boy’s Camp Life, 1880
- pp. 65-66
- Roman Nose Goes to New York, 1880
- pp. 66-67
- Mary North (Arapaho)
- p. 74
- A Little Story, 1880
- p. 74
- Indians’ Accustoms, 1891
- pp. 75-76
- How to Walk Straight, 1892
- pp. 76-77
- The Sun Dance, 1893
- pp. 77-78
- Tipi-iyokihe, 1895
- pp. 79-80
- The Trail of the Serpent, 1896
- pp. 83-84
- Indian Folk-Lore, 1896
- pp. 84-85
- An Indian Naturalist, 1897
- pp. 85-87
- Transition Scenes, 1899
- pp. 87-89
- An Indian Girl in Boston, 1904
- pp. 92-94
- From Hampton to New York, 1905
- pp. 96-97
- My Home Locality, 1909
- pp. 98-100
- Caleb Carter (Nez Percé)
- p. 101
- Christmas among the Nez Percés, 1911
- pp. 101-104
- Short Stories and Retold Tales
- A Fox and a Wolf: A Fable, 1892
- pp. 109-110
- The Brave War-Chief and the Ghost, 1892
- pp. 111-113
- A Buffalo Hunt, 1892
- pp. 113-114
- The Story Teller, 1893
- pp. 114-115
- The Adventures of a Strange Family, 1893
- pp. 115-117
- The Brave Deaf and Dumb Boy, 1893
- pp. 120-122
- The Legend of Owl River, 1895
- pp. 122-123
- Ite Waste, or Fair Face, 1895
- pp. 124-126
- An Indian Story, 1903
- pp. 127-128
- How People First Came to the World, 1903
- pp. 128-130
- An Enemy’s Revenge, 1905
- pp. 130-131
- Ghost Bride Pawnee Legend, 1910
- pp. 132-133
- The First Squirrel, 1904
- pp. 135-137
- The Big Dipper, 1904
- pp. 137-140
- The Beautiful Bird, 1910
- pp. 141-142
- The Way the Opossum Derived His Name, 1912
- pp. 142-146
- The Story of the Deerskin, 1910
- pp. 147-148
- The Maple Sugar Sand, 1911
- pp. 149-150
- Caleb Carter (Nez Percé)
- p. 151
- The Feast of the Animals, 1913
- pp. 151-154
- Part 2
- Address to Carlisle Students, 1886
- pp. 157-161
- The Past Life of the Plains Indians, 1905
- pp. 165-175
- One Touch of Nature, 1913
- pp. 175-177
- The Indian Dance, 1902
- pp. 191-194
- Flash Lights on the Indian Question, 1902
- pp. 194-198
- How America Has Betrayed the Indian, 1903
- pp. 198-200
- Charles Alexander Eastman (Santee Sioux)
- pp. 201-202
- An Indian Collegian’s Speech, 1888
- pp. 202-204
- Address at Carlisle Commencement, 1899
- pp. 204-206
- The Making of a Prophet, 1899
- pp. 206-213
- Notes of a Trip to the Southwest, 1900
- pp. 213-215
- An Indian Festival, 1900
- pp. 215-219
- Indian Traits, 1903
- pp. 220-224
- Angel De Cora (Winnebago)
- pp. 243-244
- My People, 1897
- pp. 244-246
- Native Indian Art, 1907
- pp. 246-249
- An Autobiography, 1911
- pp. 249-251
- Gertrude Bonnin (Yankton Sioux)
- pp. 252-254
- School Days of an Indian Girl, 1900
- pp. 254-257
- Indian Public Opinion, 1902
- pp. 264-265
- The Outlook for the Indian, 1903
- pp. 266-270
- The Problem of Old Harjo, 1907
- pp. 270-278
- The Indian in the Professions, 1912
- pp. 278-282
- Address by J. M. Oskison, 1912
- pp. 282-284
- An Indian Animal Story, 1914
- pp. 284-285
- Making New Americans from Old, 1911
- pp. 286-289
- Progress for the Indian, 1912
- pp. 289-298
- Needed Changes in Indian Affairs, 1912
- pp. 298-300
- Education of the American Indian, 1915
- pp. 301-307
- A Hampton Graduate’s Experience, 1916
- pp. 311-316
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 317-318
- Bibliography
- pp. 333-340
Additional Information
ISBN
9781496204097
Related ISBN(s)
9780803276758
MARC Record
OCLC
1004981797
Pages
360
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-03
Language
English
Open Access
No