Learning to Write "Indian": The Boarding School Experience and American Indian Literature - Softcover

Katanski Ph.D, Dr. Amelia V.

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9780806138527: Learning to Write "Indian": The Boarding School Experience and American Indian Literature
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ISBN 10: 0806138521 ISBN 13: 9780806138527
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007

Synopsis

Examines Indian boarding school narratives and their impact on the Native literary tradition from 1879 to the present

Indian boarding schools were the lynchpins of a federally sponsored system of forced assimilation. These schools, located off-reservation, took Native children from their families and tribes for years at a time in an effort to “kill” their tribal cultures, languages, and religions. In Learning to Write “Indian,” Amelia V. Katanski investigates the impact of the Indian boarding school experience on the American Indian literary tradition through an examination of turn-of-the-century student essays and autobiographies as well as contemporary plays, novels, and poetry.

Many recent books have focused on the Indian boarding school experience. Among these Learning to Write “Indian” is unique in that it looks at writings about the schools as literature, rather than as mere historical evidence.

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About the Author

Amelia V. Katanski is Associate Professor of English at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.

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Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0806138521
ISBN 13 
9780806138527
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
288
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