The first collection of writings and images focused on an off-reservation Indian boarding school, "The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue" shares the fascinating story of this flagship institution, featuring the voices of American Indian students. In 1902, the federal government opened Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, to transform American Indian students into productive farmers, carpenters, homemakers, nurses, cooks, and seamstresses. Indian students helped build the school and worked daily at Sherman; teachers provided vocational education and placed them in employment through...
The first collection of writings and images focused on an off-reservation Indian boarding school, "The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue" shares the fa...
Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young Native men and women in and around Los Angeles as domestic workers, farmhands, and factory laborers. For the first time, historian Kevin Whalen reveals the challenges these students faced as they left their homes for boarding schools and then endured an "outing program" that aimed to strip them of their identities and cultures by sending them to live...
Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman ...
