Pipestone
My Life in an Indian Boarding School
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2010]
Format: Book
Description: xviii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers a memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. He lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist vision was reshaping the federal boarding school system to promote greater respect for Native cultures and traditions. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a journey into his childhood and the inner world of the boarding school. Along the way, he shares anecdotes of dormitory culture, student pranks, and warrior games. Although Fortunate Eagle recognizes Pipestone's shortcomings, he describes his time there as nothing less than "a little bit of heaven."
Contents:
Life at Pipestone Indian Boarding School, March 1935-June 1945 -- Life after Pipestone Indian Boarding School -- App. 1. Excerpt from "The history of Pipestone Indian School" / by Gaylord V. Reynolds -- App. 2. A brief history of "The Pipestone Indian School," courtesy Pipestone County Museum.
Subjects:
Fortunate Eagle, Adam, 1929- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Pipestone Indian Industrial Training School -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Geschichte 1893-1952.
1900-1999
Ojibwa children -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Indian students -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Education -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Juvenile literature.
Indian students -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Juvenile literature.
Erlebnisbericht.
Schule.
Pipestone (Minn.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Pipestone (Minn.) -- Juvenile literature.
Pipestone, Minn.
Indianer.
USA.
Fortunate Eagle, Adam, 1929- -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Pipestone Indian Industrial Training School -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Geschichte 1893-1952.
1900-1999
Ojibwa children -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Indian students -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Education -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Juvenile literature.
Indian students -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Juvenile literature.
Erlebnisbericht.
Schule.
Pipestone (Minn.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Pipestone (Minn.) -- Juvenile literature.
Pipestone, Minn.
Indianer.
USA.
Target Audience: 910L
ISBN:
9780806141145
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Fortunate Eagle, Adam | Southeast | Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191).
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.2 11 149948.
American Indian Library Association, American Indian Youth Literature Award, 2012
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.2 11 149948.
American Indian Library Association, American Indian Youth Literature Award, 2012