| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
ix, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Known as "residential schools" in Canada. Includes poems (poetry). |
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""Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools is a must read. Tim Giago, who spent his childhood at one of these schools, examines the unholy alliance between church and state that tried to destroy the culture and spirituality of generations of Indian children. Provocative, riveting, chilling, persuasive, and original, this book leaves the reader overwhelmed. Describing almost inexpressible cruelties and triumphs, Giago pulls us into the boarding school experience. He challenges Indian Country to co-exist with the truth of what actually happened at these schools. Only then can we heal and avoid acquiescence to a system that has crushed so many souls. The book is a triumph, and a major event in Indian education." Ryan Wilson, Oglala Lakota, President, National Indian Education Association. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Iintroduction: speaking for the once-silenced voice -- Section I. Prelude: shadows of memory -- Iindian school days and nights. Identity: in the shadow of names -- In memoriam: shadows from the spirit world -- Young love and loss -- Hunger: body & soul -- Shards of memory -- Portraits: angels and demons -- Escape -- Section II. The broader perspective -- Selected essays and commentary -- Exerpts from related writings, about the Indian Mission school experience, its impact on American Indian isolationism and cultural dissolution, and how the government has contributed to an archetypal fight for survival. |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- Corrupt practices.
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Catholic Church. (OCoLC)fst00531720
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Off-reservation boarding schools -- United States -- History.
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Indian children -- Education.
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Indian children -- Abuse of.
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Indian children -- Crimes against.
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Racism in education -- United States.
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Racism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Christianity and culture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
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Corruption. (OCoLC)fst01352550
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Indian children -- Abuse of.
(OCoLC)fst00969068
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Indian children -- Education.
(OCoLC)fst00969070
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Off-reservation boarding schools. (OCoLC)fst01043978
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Racism in education. (OCoLC)fst01737534
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Racism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
(OCoLC)fst01086635
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous children -- Education.
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Indigenous children -- Abuse of.
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Indigenous children -- Crimes against.
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Residential schools -- United States -- History.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Giago, Tim A., 1934- Children left behind. 1st ed. Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light Pub., ©2006 (OCoLC)609141337 |
| ISBN |
1574160869 (pbk.) |
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9781574160864 (pbk.) |
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9781574160869 (pbk.) |
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