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Indian School on Magnolia Avenue : Voices and Images from Sherman Institute.

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In 1902 the Federal Government opened the flagship Sherman Institute, an influential off-reservation boarding school in Riverside, California, to transform American Indian students into productive farmers, carpenters, homemakers, nurses, cooks, and seamstresses. Indian students built the school and...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Trafzer, Clifford E.
Other Authors: Gilbert, Matt Sakiestewa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2012.
Series:First Peoples : New Directions in Indigenous Studies.
Subjects:
Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.) > History.
Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.)
Off-reservation boarding schools > California > Riverside > History.
School children > California > Riverside > History.
Indian students > California > Riverside > History.
Riverside (Calif.) > History.
Indian students
Off-reservation boarding schools
School children
California > Riverside
History
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue
  • Chapter 1: From Perris Indian School to Sherman Institute
  • Chapter 2: Mission Architecture and Sherman Institute
  • Chapter 3: Selling Patriot Ondians at Sherman Institute during World War I
  • Chapter 4: Healing Touch: The Nursing Program at Sherman Institute
  • Chapter 5: Labored Learning: The Outing System at Sherman Institute, 1902-1930
  • Chapter 6: A curriculum for Social Change: The Special Navajo Five Year Program, 1946-1961
  • Chapter 7: Unforgettable Lives and Symbolic Voices: The Sherman School Cemetery
  • Chapter 8: Images of Sherman Institute
  • Conclusion: An Open Vault
  • About the Authors
  • Index

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