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Turning the power : Indian boarding schools, Native American anthropologists, and the race to preserve Indigenous cultures /

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In "Turning the Power" Nathan Sowry examines how Native American students from the boarding school system, after an assimilated education, became key cultural informants for anthropologists conducting fieldwork during the Victorian and Progressive eras.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sowry, Nathan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2025].
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology
Subjects:
Off-reservation boarding schools > History.
Indian children > Relocation > United States > History.
Indians of North America > Education > History.
Indian students > United States > Social conditions.
Indians of North America > History.
Indians of North America > Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America > Government relations.
Indians, Treatment of > United States > History.
Ethnology > Research > Methodology.
Description
Summary:In "Turning the Power" Nathan Sowry examines how Native American students from the boarding school system, after an assimilated education, became key cultural informants for anthropologists conducting fieldwork during the Victorian and Progressive eras.
Physical Description:xi, 326 pages, [13] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781496241924
1496241924