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Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School
Contributor(s): Fortunate Eagle, Adam (Author), Hauptman, Laurence M. (Afterword by)

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ISBN: 080614114X     ISBN-13: 9780806141145
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: March 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Native American
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Native American & Aboriginal
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2009041302
Lexile Measure: 910(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.83" W x 8.67" L (0.61 lbs) 248 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Ikids, Illustrated, Table of Contents
Awards: American Indian Youth Literature Award, Winner, Young Adult, 2012
Review Citations: School Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 119
Multicultural Review 12/01/2010 pg. 76
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 61
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 149948
Reading Level: 6.2   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 11.0
 
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Publisher Description:

A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school

Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle 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. But this book is hardly a dry history of the late boarding school era. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a delightful 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."

Were all Indian boarding schools the dispiriting places that history has suggested? This book allows readers to decide for themselves.


Contributor Bio(s): Hauptman, Laurence M.: -

Laurence M. Hauptman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History in the State University of New York, College at New Paltz, and the author of several books on the Iroquois in New York state.

Fortunate Eagle, Adam: - Adam Fortunate Eagle is an Ojibwe artist, writer, and frequent guest lecturer. As an advocate for Native civil rights throughout his life, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of Heart of the Rock: The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz and Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School.
 
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