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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: plot against native America
    sub title: the fateful story of Native American boarding schools and the theft of tribal lands
  name:
    name part: Vaughn, Bill
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 236 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The first narrative history revealing the entire story of the development, operation and harmful legacy of the Native American boarding schools and how our nation still has much to resolve before we can fully heal. When Europeans came to the Americas centuries ago, too many of them brought racism along with them. Even presidents such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson each had different takes on how to solve the "Indian Problem," none of them beneficial for the Natives. In the early 1800s, the federal government and various church denominations devised the "Indian Boarding Schools," in which Native children were forced to give up their Native languages, clothes, and spiritual beliefs for a life of cultural assimilation. Many of the children were abused sexually and a shocking number died of pneumonia, tuberculosis and other diseases. Sizable graveyards were found at many of these boarding schools. In 2021, the mass graves of First Nations children were found at the remains of some Canadian boarding schools, and the Pope traveled to Canada to apologize. In May 2022, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland released the first installment of an investigation into Native American boarding schools in the United States. It was the tip of the iceberg. The findings were shocking. The investigation revealed that the boarding school system emphasized manual labor and vocational training, which failed to prepare indigenous students for life in a capitalist economy. Despite the plot against Native America, tribal cultures have endured and are now flourishing. Indigenous birth rates are higher than those of white communities. Tribal councils across Indian Country are building their own herds of bison. As the tribes rebuild and reinvigorate their culture, the Catholic Church in America is fading. Some thirty dioceses have declared bankruptcy because of lawsuits brought by the victims of the sexual predators among priests and nuns. Native Americans seeking…
  table of contents: Childhood's end -- The interpreters -- Under the bird tail -- The world's wealthiest nun -- The hostages -- Custer had it coming -- The Lord's vineyard -- The long walk -- Blackfeet warrior -- The vanishing Indian and other myths.
  note: Bill Vaughn.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    topic: Cultural assimilation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Indians of North America
    topic: Education
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Off-reservation boarding schools
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Indians, Treatment of
    geographic: North America
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Cultural assimilation
    geographic: North America
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Missions
    geographic: North America
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    geographic: North America
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Government relations
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Land tenure
    geographic: North America
  subject:
    topic: Indigenous peoples
    topic: Crimes against
  subject:
    topic: Settler colonialism
    geographic: North America
  subject:
    topic: Racism against Indigenous peoples
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Indigenous
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies
  classification: E98.C89 V38 2024
  classification: 973.0497
  identifier: 9781639367467
  identifier: 1639367462
  identifier: 2025421012
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250314
    record change date: 20260320151406.8
    record identifier: in00005530554