Education at the edge of empire : negotiating Pueblo identity in New Mexico's Indian boarding schools

Gram, John R. (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780295994772
ISBN: 0295994770
Physical Description: print
xviii, 242 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Eastern reforms encounter southwestern communities -- The economics of education: The true cost of keeping the doors open -- The consequences of competition: The fight to control the flow of Pueblo students -- Geographies of imagination: Competing understandings of people and place in the Southwest -- Everyday encounters: Daily life at the Albuquerque and Santa Fe Indian Schools -- The integration of worlds: what students and their communities made of the boarding school experience -- Conclusion: the successful legacy of assimilation's failure -- Appendix.