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The Thomas Indian School and the "irredeemable" children of New York /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burich, Keith R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Iroquois and their neighbors.
Subjects:
Thomas Indian School (Iroquois, N.Y.)
Off-reservation boarding schools > New York (State) > History.
Indian students > New York (State) > History.
Iroquois Indians > Education > History.
Iroquois Indians > Cultural assimilation > New York (State)
Indian children > Abuse of > New York (State) > History.
Iroquois children > New York (State) > Social conditions.
Indians of North America > Education > New York (State) > Cattaraugus Indian Reservation.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > New York (State)
Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • An overwhelming majority of the Indians are poor, even extremely poor
  • Things fall apart
  • Conceived in hope, born of despair
  • Crippled, defective, and Indian children
  • Up to this day, I ain't nothing
  • No place to go
  • Everyone has forgotten me though I'm gonna die.