Episode #37 Book & Resource List

Thank you for registering for the Clements Bookworm! Please find below a link to the recording from today's program with Dr. Veronica Pasfield, "Native American Boarding Schools as a Tool of U.S. Empire."

Link to the Recording - 11/19/21

Thank you to the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan for generously sponsoring today's episode.

Dr. Veronica Pasfield Dissertation, University of Michigan Department of American Culture (2013): "The Head, the Heart, and the Hands: Hampton, Carlisle, and Hilo in/as Circuits of Transpacific Empire, 1819-1887."

Clements Library Resources:

Native American Schools Subject Guide "Views of Assimilation: A Case Study on Photography in Indian Boarding Schools" - A section of the online exhibit “No, not even for a picture”: Re-examining the Native Midwest and Tribes’ Relations to the History of Photography "Boarding Schools" - A section of the online exhibit American Encounters: Native American History at the Clements Library Richard Pohrt, Jr. Collection of Native American photography (ca. 1855-1940, bulk 1862-1900), Finding Aid. (See also Dec. 2019 U-M Press Release about the acquisition.)

Cheyenne and Arapohoe Indians, Agency and Carlisle Training School Officials and Pupils. / Taken at Devil's Den, Nov. 28, 1884, by W. H. Tipton, Photographer, Gettysburg, Pa. Pohrt Collection of Native American Photography, William L. Clements Library. [catalog record]

Other Resources discussed: Resources from NABS, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (boardingschoolhealing.org). Jon Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio, Dismembering Lāhui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887 David Wallace Adams, Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 Brad D. Lookingbill, War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners Jedidiah Morse, "A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States on Indian Affairs..." (New Haven: Davis & Force, 1822). Available at the Clements Library or online via HathiTrust. More links of interest:

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants Imprisoned but Empowered: Cheyenne Warrior Artists at Fort Marion, exhibit on view at the Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL, through Feb. 27, 2022 No, not even for a picture: Re-examining the Native Midwest and Tribes’ Relations to the History of Photography, exhibit on view at the Saginaw Art Museum, Saginaw, MI, through Feb. 26, 2022 Wendy Red Star, Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird, exhibit on view at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, through May 2022

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