Negotiating assimilation and missionization in Indian Territory : Native Americans, the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, and boarding schools in Oklahoma, 1870s-1960s /

"This book explores how Native American students, families, and communities negotiated federal assimilation policy and Catholic missionization in boarding schools in Indian Territory and Oklahoma during the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. It also grapples with modern-day repercussions from...

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Main Author:	Rindfleisch, Bryan C. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Milwaukee, WI : Marquette University Press, [2024]
Subjects:	Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (U.S.) > History. Off-reservation boarding schools > Oklahoma > History. Indians of North America > Education > Oklahoma. Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > Oklahoma. Indians of North America > Missions > Oklahoma. Indians of North America > Violence against > Oklahoma. Internats pour Autochtones > Oklahoma > Histoire.

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Summary:	"This book explores how Native American students, families, and communities negotiated federal assimilation policy and Catholic missionization in boarding schools in Indian Territory and Oklahoma during the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. It also grapples with modern-day repercussions from this boarding school history for both Native and Catholic communities in Oklahoma today"--
Physical Description:	xxxix, 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781626000643 1626000646