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Objects of survivance : a material history of the American Indian school experience
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- Online
- Summary
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"Reframes the Bratley collection showing how tribal members have embraced it as their past and reclaimed it as contemporary identity. Bratley was an Indian school teacher charged with forcibly assi...
"Reframes the Bratley collection showing how tribal members have embraced it as their past and reclaimed it as contemporary identity. Bratley was an Indian school teacher charged with forcibly assimilating Native Americans. Although tasked with eradicating their culture, Bratley became entranced by their practices and collected artifacts/photographs"--
Details
- Creator
- Lindsay M. Montgomery and Chip Colwell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Denver, Colorado : Denver Museum of Nature & Science ; Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2019]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (243 pages)
- ISBNs
- 1607329921, 9781607329930, 9781607329923, 160732993X
- OCLC
- on1112129919
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- A man and world in between -- Bratley's collection in context -- Indian schools -- Collecting cultures -- Corners and fairs -- The pioneering life of Jesse H. Bratley -- Port Gamble Day School, 1893-1895 -- Lower Cut Meat Creek Day School, 1895-1899 -- Cantonment Boarding School, 1899-1900 -- Havasupai Day School, 1900-1901 -- Polacca Day School, 1902 -- Kansas and Florida, 1903-1948 -- The civilizing machine -- Work conquers all -- Resistance -- Persistence -- Objects of survivance
Subjects
- Bratley, J. H. (Jesse H.) -- Photograph collections.
- Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
- Indigenous peoples -- Cultural assimilation -- United States.
- Off-reservation boarding schools -- United States.
- Indians of North America -- Education -- History.
- Indigenous peoples -- Education -- United States.
- Bratley, J. H. (Jesse H.) -- Photograph collections.
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