Selected Bibliography on
American Indian Boarding Schools
and
Resistant Strategies of Indian Students at Indian Schools

Adams, David Wallace.  Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience 1875 to 1928.  Lawrence KS: University of Kansas press, 1995.

Adams, David Wallace. "Beyond Bleakness: The Brighter Side of Indian Boarding Schools." Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences.  Eds. Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller and Lorene Sisquoc.   Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

Ah-nen-la-de-ni.  "An Indian Boy's Story."   Independent July 1903: 1780-87.

Archuleta, Margaret L., Brenda J. Child, and K. Tsianina Lomawaima, eds.  Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences.  Phoenix, AZ: Heard Museum, 2000.

Arnold, Mary Ellicott and Mabel Reed.  In the Land of the Grasshopper Song: Two Women in the Klamath River Indian Country 1908-09.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1957.

Atkins, J. D. C. "The English Language in Indian Schools."  Report of September 21, 1887 in House Executive Document No.1, part 5, vol.II, 50 Congress, 1 session, serial 2542.  Rpt. in Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the "Friends of the Indian" 1880-1900.  Ed. Francis Paul Prucha.   Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1973.

Bell, Genevieve.  "Telling Stories Out of School: Remembering the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1918."  Diss. Stanford University, 1978.

Bensen, Robert, ed.  Children of the Dragonfly: Native American Voices in Child Custody and Education. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2001.

Calinescu, Matei.  "Orality in Literacy: Some Historical Paradoxes of Reading and Rereading."  Second Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading.   Ed. Davis Galef.   Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988.

Cobb, Amanda J.  Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949.   Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

DeJong, David H.   Promises of the Past: A History of Indian Education.   Golden CO: North American Press, 1993.

Delpit, Lisa and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, eds.  The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom.   New York: The New Press, 2002.

Dawes, Henry L.  "Solving the Indian Problem."  Fifteenth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners (1883).   Rpt. in Americanizing the Indians: Wrtings by 'Friends of the Indians' 1880-1900.  Ed. Francis Paul Prucha.   Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1973.

Ellis, Clyde.  To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School 1893-1920.  Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1996.

Fixico, Donald L.  The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge.  New York: Routledge, 2003.

Freire, Paolo. The Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1970.

Giago, Tim and Denise Giago.  The Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools.  Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light, 2006.

Golden, Gertrude.  Red Moon Called Me: Memoirs of a Schoolteacher in the Government Indian Service.  San Antonio: Naylor, 1954.

Gould, Janice.  "''I am putting my mind to learn': Indian Boarding School Literacy and Literature, 1880-1929," Native American Literature Conference, Eugene, Oregon, May 1997.

Gould, Janice.  "Letters Home: Transmitting and Transgressing the Dominant Culture in Writing by American Indian School Children," CCCC, Milwaukee WI, March 1996.

Iliff, Flora G.  People of the Blue Water.  New York: Harper and Bros., 1954.

In the White Man's Image. PBS, 1992.

Johnston, Basil.  Indian School Days.  Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

Katanski, Amelia V.  Learning to Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience and American Indian Literature.  Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006

Kidwell, Clara Sue, Homer Noley, and George E. Tinker.  Native American Theology.  Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 2001.

Lomawaima , K. Tsianina .  "Estelle Reel, Superintendent of Indian Schools, 1898-1910: Politics, Curriculum, and Land."  Journal of American Indian Education 35:3 (May 1996). <http://jaie.asu.edu/v35/V35S3es.htm> August 12, 2004.

________.  They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

Ludlow, Helen.  "Indian Education at Carlisle and Hampton."  Harper's New Monthly Magazine 62 (April 1881): 659-675.

Lyons, Scott Richard.  "A Captivity Narrative: Mixedbloods and 'White' Academe."  Outbursts in Academe: Multiculturalism and Other Sources of Conflict.  Ed. Kathleen Dixon.  Portsmouth NH: Heinneman, Boyton/Cook, 1998.

Lyons, Scott Richard.  "Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?"  College Composition and Communication 51 (2000): 447-68.

Maurial, Mahia.  "Indigenous Knowledge and Schooling: A Continuum between Conflict and Dialogue."  What Is Indigenous Knowledge: Voices from the Academy.  Eds. Ladilus Semali and Joe Kincheloe.  New York: Farmer Press, 1999.

Mihesuah, Devon A.  Cultivating the Rosebuds.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,  xxxx.

Miranda, Deborah.  "A String of Textbooks: Artifacts of Composition Pedagogy in Indian Boarding Schools."  The Journal of Teaching Writing 16.2 (Fall 2000).

Morgan, Thomas J.  "Supplemental Report on Indian Education."  Report of December 1, 1889 in House Executive Document No.1, part 5, vol.II, 51 Congress, 1 session, serial 2725.  Rpt. in Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the "Friends of the Indian" 1880-1900.  Ed. Francis Paul Prucha.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1973.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o.  Decolonizing the Mind: the Politics and Language in African Literature.  London: James Currey, 1986.

Pearce, Roy Harvey.  Savagism and Civilization: A Study of Indians and the American Mind.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1965.

Powell, Malea.  "Blood and Scholarship: One Mixed-Blood's Story."  Race, Rhetoric and Composition.  Ed. Keith Gilyard.  Portsmouth NH: Heinneman, Boyton/Cook, 1999.

________.  "Extending the Hand of Empire: American Indians and the Indian Reform Movement, a Beginning." Rhetoric and Ethnicity.  Ed. Keith Gilyard. Portsmouth NH: Heinneman, Boyton/Cook, 2004.

________.  "Rhetorics of Survivance: How American Indians Use Writing."  College Composition and Communication 53 (2002): 396-434.

Pratt, Mary Louise.  "Arts of the Contact Zone."  Profession 91(1991) 33-40.

Pratt, Richard Henry.  Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian 1867-1904.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Prucha, Francis Paul, ed.  Americanizing the Indians: Writings by 'Friends of the Indians' 1880-1900.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1973.

Qoyawayma, Polingaysi with Vada F. Carlson.  No Turning Back: A Hopi Woman's Struggle in Two Worlds.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1964.

Reel, Estelle.  Uniform Course of Study for Indian Schools.  Washington DC : Government Printing Office, 1901.

Reyhner, Jon.  "Teaching English to American Indians."  Learn in Beauty: Indigenous Education for a New Century.  Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University, 2000.  September 4, 2005.  <http://jan.ucc.nau.edu>

________ and Jeanne Eder.  American Indian Education: A History.  Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

Sarris, Greg.  Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to Native American Texts.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Schurz, Carl.  "Present Aspects of the Indian Problem."  North American Review July 1881.

School News.  Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1880-1882.

Semali, Ladislaus and Joe Kincheloe.  What Is Indigenous Knowledge: Voices from the Academy.  New York: Farmer Press, 1999.

Silko, Leslie.  Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit.  NY: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Sioui, Georges.  For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundation of a Social Ethic.  Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1992.

Skrupky, David.  "Harmony and Balance."  Curriculum Framework.  Office of Indian Education, Minnesota, 2000.

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai.  Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples.  London: Zed Books Ltd.: 1999.

Spack, Ruth.  America's Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860-1900.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Spring, Joel.  The American School: 1642-2000 fifth edition.  Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Standing Bear, Luther (Ota Kte).  My People the Sioux.  Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1928.

________.  Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933).  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978.

Szasz, Margaret Connell.  Indian Education in the American Colonies: 1607-1783.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.

Szwed, John F.  "The Ethnography of Literacy."  Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook.  Eds. Ellen Cushman, Eugene R. Kintgen, Barry M. Kroll, and Mike Rose.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001.

Tinker, George E.  Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.

________.  "Tracing the Contours of Colonialism: American Indians and the Trajectory of Educational Imperialism."  Kill the Indian and Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Boarding Schools.  Ward Churchill.  San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2004.

Trafzer, Clifford E., and Jean A. Keller, eds. with an Introduction by Lorene Sisquoc.  Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences.  Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2006.

Vizenor, Gerald.  Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance.  Hanover, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1994.

________.  Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

________.  Interview: Native American Novelists.  Lugano: TSI Swiss Television. Matteo Bellinelli, Director.  1995.

Warrior, Robert Allen.  Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

________.  The People and the Word: Reading Native Non-fiction.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Weaver, Jace.  That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Community.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

________, ed.  Native American Religious Identity: Unforgotten Gods.  Maryknoll NY: Orbes Books, 1998.

________.  Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law and Culture.  Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Webb, J. Russell.  Model First Reader: Sentence-Method.  Chicago: George Sherwood and Co., 1873.

For more links to information about Carlisle, see the home page:
        http://home.epix.net/~landis/index.html

For history and links to resources about the Boarding School system:
        http://www.kporterfie ld.com/aicttw/articles/boardingschool.html

and a gallery of photographs:
        http://www.e nglish.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/boarding/gallery.htm