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Judith Nies, Native American history
- Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject headings include:
- Indians of North America--History.
Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, and Lorene Sisquoc. ed., Boarding school blues : revisiting American Indian educational experiences
- Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject headings include:
- Off-reservation boarding schools--History.
Indian children--Relocation--United States--History.
Indian children--Education.
Indians of North America--Government relations.
United States--Social policy.
United States--Race relations.
Tamara L. Roleff, ed., Native American rights
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-200) and index. Partial contents include:
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- Is Native American culture Threatened?
- Is Indian gaming beneficial to Native Americans?
- How should tribal resources be used?
- Should Indian sovereignty be restricted?
Adam Fortunate Eagle ; afterword by Laurence M. Hauptman, Pipestone : my life in an Indian boarding school
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers a memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. He lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike.
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