This books is based on more than 100 autobiographical accounts from Native American students who attended government or mission run boarding schools. At these schools children were forced to abandon their rich heritage and culture for a foreign system that sought to assimilate them into mainstream, Christian society. This book is filled with stories of resistance, survival, rejection, and the struggle to adjust to living in Native American society upon returning from school.

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Source: Coleman, Michael C. “American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930.” Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2008