Indian School: Teaching the White Man's Way Hardcover - 1999
by Cooper, Michael L
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- Title Indian School: Teaching the White Man's Way
- Author Cooper, Michael L
- Illustrator B/W Photos
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Clarion Books, NY
- Date 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 075534a
- ISBN 9780395920848 / 0395920841
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 7.3 x 0.58 in (23.62 x 18.54 x 1.47 cm)
- Ages 10 to 12 years
- Grade levels 5 - 7
- Reading level 1100
- Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - Education -, Off-reservation boarding schools - United
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98043640
- Dewey Decimal Code 370.899
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Summary
In 1879 eighty-four Sioux boys and girls became the inaugural group of students to be enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Carlisle was the first institution opened by the federal government for the education of Native American children. The brainchild of former Indian fighter Captain Richard Pratt, Carlisle, like other schools that followed, was established to teach Indian children the "white man's way." For some, like Olympian Jim Thorpe, Indian School led to success and prosperity, but for many others it was an education in alienation and isolation. Michael L. Cooper examines the Indian Schools and tells the personal stories, often in their own words, of several young students, including Zitkala-Sa, who wrote, "Like a slender tree, I had been uprooted from my mother, nature, and God."