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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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

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

Katanski, Amelia V.

Paperback

Native American HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0806138521
ISBN13: 9780806138527
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Jan 15 2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.22 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

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.

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