The Middle Five : Indian schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe - Northwest Indian College

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The Middle Five : Indian schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe / Francis La Flesche ; foreword by David A. Baerreis.

La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932 (Author).

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The Middle Five, first published in 1900, is an account of Francis La Flesche's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission school in northeastern Nebraska about the time of the Civil War. It is a simple tale of young Indian boys midway between two cultures, reluctant to abandon the ways of their fathers, and puzzled and uncomfortable in their new roles of "make-believe white men." The ambition of the Indian parents for their children, the struggle of the teachers to acquaint their charges with a new world of learning, and especially the problems met by both parents and teachers in controlling and directing schoolboy exuberance contribute to this portrait of the "Universal Boy," to whom La Flesche dedicated his book.

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ISBN: 9780803279018
ISBN: 0803279019
ISBN: 9780803228528
ISBN: 080322852X
Physical Description: xxiii, 152 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1978], �1963.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Reprint of the ed. published by the University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
Formatted Contents Note:: The mission -- Brush -- Edwin -- Little Bob -- Warren -- Lester -- The splinter, the thorn, and the rib -- Fraudulent holidays -- William T. Sherman -- A runaway -- A new study -- Ponka boys -- The secret of the big seven -- A rebuke -- Joe -- The break.

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Subject:: La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932.
Omaha children.
Omaha Indians > Education.
Omaha Indians > Biography.
Indian children > Nebraska.

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Lummi Library	COLL BIO LA F 1963	02238738	Biography	Available	-
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Lummi Library	INDIAN # 271	276140	Deloria Collection	In process	-

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