Mashantucket Pequot Research Library

Indian Residential Schools

A Bibliography

 

 

Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

STACKS: E 97.5 .A35 1995

 

Archuleta, Margaret L. et al, ed. Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000. Phoenix: The Heard Museum, 2000.

STACKS: E 97.5 .A93 2000

 

Armstrong, Samuel Chapman. Indian Education in the East, at Hampton, VA, and Carlisle, PA: An address delivered in Boston, MA, October, 1880.

MICROFORM: PAH I-674

 

Bloom, John. To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

STACKS: E 98 .G2 B56 2000

 

Bonnell, Sonciray. Chemawa Indian Boarding School: The First One Hundred Years, 1880-1980. Dissertation.com, 1997.

STACKS: E 97.6 .C34 B65 1997

 

Cameron, George. Sequoyah Orphans Training School. Tahlequah, OK: Heritage Printing, 1994.

STACKS: E 97.6 .S4 C36 1994

 

Carroll, James T. Seeds of Faith: Catholic Indian Boarding Schools. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000.

STACKS: E 97.5 .C37 2000

 

Child, Brenda J. Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

STACKS: E 99 .C6 C45 1998

 

Chrisjohn, Roland & Sherri Young. The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada. Penticton, BC, Canada: Theytus Books Ltd., 2006

STACKS: E 96.5 .C57 2006

 

Churchill, Ward. Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2004.

STACKS: E 97 .C57 2004

 

Cobb, Amanda J. Listening to Our Grandmothers’ Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

STACKS: E 97.6 .B55 C63 2000

 

Coleman, Michael C. American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

STACKS: E 97.5 .C64 1993

 

Ellis, Clyde. To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

STACKS: E 99 .K5 E45 1996

 

Furniss, Elizabeth. Victims of Benevolence: The Dark Legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, Ltd., 1995.

STACKS: E 96.6 .S7 F87 1995

 

Grover, Linda Legarde. Effects of Boarding School Education on American Indian Families: A Qualitative Study of Perceptions from an American Indian Viewpoint. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1999.

STACKS: E 97.5 .G76 1999r

 

Haig-Brown, Celia. Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School. Vancouver: Tillacum Library, 1988.

STACKS: E 96.6 .K36 H35 1988

 

Hamley, Jeffrey Louis. Cultural Genocide in the Classroom: A History of the Federal Boarding School Movement in American Indian Education, 1875-1920. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1994.

STACKS: E 97.5 .H36 1994

 

Hare, William Hobart. Domestic Missions, Indian Boarding-Schools: Letter from Bishop Hare, Springfield, Dakota, January 4, 1884, to our benefactors who support scholars in the boarding schools of South Dakota. Springfield, 1884.

MICROFORM: PAH I-411

 

Horne, Esther Burnett & Sally McBeth. Essie’s Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

STACKS: E 99 .S4 H67 1998

 

Hultgren, Mary Lou and Paulette Fairbanks Molin. To Lead and To Serve: American Indian Education at Hampton Institute, 1878-1923. Virginia Beach: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, 1989.

STACKS: E 97.6 .H3 H85 1989r

 

Jaine, Linda ed. Residential Schools: The Stolen Years. Saskatchewan: University of Saskatchewan, 1995.

STACKS: PR 9194.5 .I5 R47 1995

 

Johnston, Basil H. Indian School Days. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

STACKS: E 99 .C6 J634 1988

 

Katanski, Amelia V. Learning to Write “Indian”: The Boarding School Experience and American Indian Literature. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.

STACKS: PS 153 .I52 K38 2005

 

Keller, Jean A. Empty Beds: Indian Student Health at Sherman Institute, 1902-1922. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002.

STACKS: RA 448.5 .I5 K45 2002

 

Knockwood, Isabelle. Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. Lockeport, Nova Scotia: Roseway Publishing, 1992.

STACKS: E 99 .M6 K66 1992

 

Lindsey, Donal F. Indians at Hampton Institute: 1877-1923. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

STACKS: E 97.6 .H3 L56 1995

 

Metcalf, Ann Hillyer R. The Effects of Boarding School on Navajo Self-Image and Maternal Behavior. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1975.

STACKS: E 99 .N3 M55 1975

 

Miller, J.R. Shingwauk’s Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

STACKS: E 96.5 .M55 1996

 

Milloy, John S. A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986. Winnipeg: The University of Manitoba Press, 1999.

STACKS: E 96.5 .M56 1999

 

Murphy, Wynona Winters. Chilocco: Health Conditions at a Native American Boarding School, 1884-1930. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 2003.

STACKS: E 97.6 .C4 M87 2003r

 

Office of Superintendent of Indian Schools. Course of Study for the Indian Schools of the United States, Industrial and Literary. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901.

STACKS: E 97 .U59 1901

 

Ormsby, Colin Andrew. Hiding in Plain Sight: Narrative and the Investigation of the Native American Boarding School Experience. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 2002.

STACKS: E 97.5 .O75 2002r

 

Parker, Dorothy R. Phoenix Indian School: The Second Half-Century. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1996.

STACKS: E 97.6 .P4 P5736 1996

 

Pratt, Richard Henry. Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

STACKS: E 97.6 .C2 P89 1964

 

_______. The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, PA: It’s Origin, Purposes, Progress and the Difficulties Surmounted, 1908.

MICROFORM: PAH I-701

 

Reyhner, Jon & Jeanne Eder. American Indian Education: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

STACKS: E 97 .R49 2004

 

Riney, Scott. The Rapid City Indian School, 1898-1933. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.

STACKS: E 97.6 .R35 R56 1999

 

Shillinger, Sarah R. “They Never Told Us They Wanted to Help Us:” An Oral History of Saint Joseph’s Indian Industrial School. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1995.

STACKS: E 99 .M44 S54 1995r

 

Trennert, Robert A. Jr., The Phoenix Indian School: Forced Assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1935. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

STACKS: E 97.6 .P4 T74 1988

 

United States, Bureau of Education. The Indian School at Carlisle Barracks. Washington: U.S. Government. Printing Office, 1880.

MICROFORM: PAH I-705

 

United States Indian School (Carlisle, PA). Catalogue, United States Indian School, Carlisle, PA, 1910. Carlisle, PA: Carlisle Indian Press, 1910.

MICROFORM: PAH I-1466

 

_______. Information Concerning the United States Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, PA, containing a brief outline of what it is, and what it is accomplishing, 1879, 29th year, 1908. Carlisle, PA: Indian Industrial School, 1908.

MICROFORM: PAH I-676

 

_______. The Arrow. Carlisle, PA: Indian Industrial School, 1904-1908.

MICROFORM: American Indian Periodicals, Pt.1

 

United States, Superintendent of Indian Schools. Syllabus of Language Work and Suggestion to Teachers Concerning Lessons in Speaking, Reading, Writing, Spelling, and Grammar for the use of Indian Day Schools and Reservation Boarding Schools. Washington: 1894.

MICROFORM: PAH I-641

 

 

 

Videos

 

 

Another Wind is Moving: The Off-Reservation Indian Boarding School. Donald D. Stull, prod. Berkeley, CA: University of California Extension Media Center, 1985.

MULTIMEDIA: VID E 97.5 .A56 1985

 

Childhood Lost: The Residential School Experience. Blue Hill Productions, prod. Kelowna, B.C.: Filmwest Associates, 2001.

MULTIMEDIA: VID E 96.5 .C45 2001

 

Healing the Mission School Syndrome. Vic Istchenko, prod. Whitehorse, Yukon: Northern Native Broadcasting, 1995.

MULTIMEDIA: VID E 96.5 H4 1995

 

In the White Man’s Image. Christine Lesiak, prod. Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1991

MULTIMEDIA: VID E 97.5 .I58 1991

 

Indian Residential School Survivors. Barry Bernard, prod. Eskasoni, Nova Scotia: Unama’ki Training & Education Center, 1996.

MULTIMEDIA: VID E 96.6 .S54 I5 1996

 

White Man’s Way. Christine Lesiak, prod. Lincoln, NE: GPN, 1992.

MULTIMEDIA: VID E 97.5 .W45 1992z

 

 

Revised April, 2007 by the staff of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum  & Research Center, Information Resources Department - SAN