Title Committed : Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions / Susan Burch.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
	Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000.
	2021.

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Description	1 online resource (pages cm).
Series	Critical indigeneities
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Summary	"In 1898, Congress passed a bill creating the only 'institution for insane Indians' in the country. The Canton Indian Insane Asylum in South Dakota (sometimes called the Hiawatha Insane Asylum) opened for the reception of patients in 1903. Not long after it opened, a 1927 investigation conducted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs determined that many of the patients were not mentally ill in any clinical sense. Many Native Americans had been institutionalized for alcoholism, opposing government or business interests, or being culturally misunderstood. Nevertheless, more than 350 patients from 53 Native nations were detained at Canton, many of them relatives across generations. Conditions at the institution were dire; at least 121 of these patients died while there. In 1934, just 31 years after it accepted its first patient, Canton was closed and its story largely forgotten. In Committed, Susan Burch resurrects this history through the stories of individuals detained at Canton Asylum, told to her by their relatives, the asylum's staff, and the town's residents during this time"-- Provided by publisher.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Canton Asylum for Insane Indians. (OCoLC)fst01973950
	Inmates of institutions -- United States -- Biography.
	North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
	Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
	HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934.
Subject	Canton Asylum for Insane Indians -- History.
	Indians of North America -- Government relations. (OCoLC)fst00969761
	Indians, Treatment of -- North America.
	Indians of North America -- Biography.
	Inmates of institutions. (OCoLC)fst00973691
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Subject	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Indians, Treatment of. (OCoLC)fst00970120
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Biography.
Subject	Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- North America.
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