Children left behind : dark legacy of Indian mission boarding schools

Giago, Tim A 1934- (Author).

Summary: Known as "residential schools" in Canada. Includes poems (poetry).

Record details

ISBN: 1574160869
ISBN: 9781574160864
ISBN: 9781574160869
Physical Description: print
ix, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light Pub., ©2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword -- Iintroduction: speaking for the once-silenced voice -- Section I. Prelude: shadows of memory -- Iindian school days and nights. Identity: in the shadow of names -- In memoriam: shadows from the spirit world -- Young love and loss -- Hunger: body & soul -- Shards of memory -- Portraits: angels and demons -- Escape -- Section II. The broader perspective -- Selected essays and commentary -- Exerpts from related writings, about the Indian Mission school experience, its impact on American Indian isolationism and cultural dissolution, and how the government has contributed to an archetypal fight for survival.