Lessons from an Indian day school : negotiating colonization in northern New Mexico, 1902-1907

Summary: This book is a microhistory, or an ethnographic reconstruction, of how Office of Indian Affairs school personnel, Pueblo Indians, and Hispanos carried out and appropriated federal Indian policy in the northern Rio Grande valley, a nexus for a number of colonial policies. Drawing on correspondence between Clara D. True, an Office of Indian Affairs (OIA) day school teacher stationed at Santa Clara Pueblo, and Clinton J. Crandall, superintendent of the Santa Fe Indian School ... I demonstrate how school sites and school personnel were respectively hubs and intermediaries for a variety of issues, including land, public health, citizenship, schooling, and education

Record details

ISBN: 0700618074
ISBN: 9780700618071 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0700618074 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
x, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Land; or, relearning place in a new colonial era -- Disease; or, the initiation of Clara D. True -- Citizen; or, the legal education of Clinton J. Crandall -- Institutions; or, getting schooled by the U.S. colonial system -- Education; or, learning within a colonial regime.