"Examines Indian boarding school narratives and their impact on the Native literary tradition from 1879 to the present"

Indian boarding schools were the lynchpins of a federally sponsored system of forced assimilation. These schools, located off-reservation, took Native children from their families and tribes for years at a time in an effort to kill their tribal cultures, languages, and religions. In "Learning to Write Indian, " Amelia V. Katanski investigates the impact of the Indian boarding school experience on the American Indian literary tradition through an examination of...