Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000
Matthew Garrett
ISBN 10: 1607815699 ISBN 13: 9781607815693
Published by University of Utah Press December 2016, 2016
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Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies
From 1947 to 2000, some 50,000 Native American children left the reservations to live with Mormon foster families. While some dropped out of the Indian Student Placement Program (ISPP), for others the months spent living with LDS families often proved more penetrating than expected.
The ISPP emerged in the mid-twentieth century, championed by Apostle Spencer W. Kimball, aligned with the then national preferences to terminate tribal entities and assimilate indigenous people. But as the paradigm shifted to self-determination, critics labeled the program as crudely assimilationist. Some ISPP students like Navajo George P. Lee fiercely defended the LDS Church before native peers and Congress, contending that it empowered Native people and instilled the true Indian identity; meanwhile Red Power activists organized protests in Salt Lake City, denouncing LDS colonization. As a new generation of church leaders quietly undercut the Indian programs, many of its former participants felt a sense of confusion and abandonment as Mormon distinctions for Native people faded in the late twentieth century.
Making Lamanites traces this student experience within contested cultural and institutional landscapes to reveal how and why many of these Native youth adopted a new notion of Indianness.
Winner of the Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book Award from the Utah Division of State History.
About the Author:
Matthew Garrett is professor of history at Bakersfield College, where he also works in the college archives. He is an editor for the college’s Roughneck Review and recently joined the editorial board of the Journal of Mormon History.
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Title: Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans,...
Publisher: University of Utah Press December 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Trade Paperback
Condition: Very Good - Cash