Clyde Ellis, professor of history, has published an essay in a new anthology on American Indian boarding schools.
Titled “‘We Had a Lot of Fun, but of Course, That Wasn’t The School Part’: Life at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920,” the essay examines how Kiowa children at the school resisted the government’s assimilation programs and created their own identity as Indians in a modern world.
The essay appears in “Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences,” published by the University of Nebraska Press. The anthology is the result of a 2002 symposium sponsored by the University of California at Riverside and the Riverside Indian School that brought together 12 leading scholars on Indian education.
Much of the research for Ellis’ essay originally appeared in his first book, “To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920,” published in 1996 by the University of Oklahoma Press. The book won the 1997 Gustavus Myers Award for the Outstanding Work on Intolerance in North America, and is described by the editors of “Boarding School Blues” as a “classic” work on Indian education.
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