Rachel H Garcia

Tells how generations of Hopi schoolchildren from northeastern Arizona, sent to Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, one of the largest off-reservation boarding schools in the United States, resisted the school's program of assimilation,...

Describes what happened to Geronimo and his followers after they surrendered in 1886, drawing mainly on dispatches, reports, and news items to chronicle the Chiricahua Apaches' 27 years of imprisonment in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma.

"An examination of government-controlled schools' use of art education as a process for assimilating American Indian children at the turn of the twentieth century."--Provided by publisher.

Covers the life of eighty-four Sioux boys and girls who became the inaugural group of students enrolled in the Carlisle Indian School, and tells the stories of students who willed themselves to die rather than remain in school.

"Between 1859 and the 1960's missionaries and the U.S. government operated more than five hundred assimilation centers. Their ostensible goal was to solve the "Indian problem" by transforming Indigenous children into English-speaking Christians...