Indian School : Teaching the White Man's Way | 
|  | | | Title: | Indian School : Teaching the White Man's Way | | Author: | Michael L. Cooper | | Publisher: | Clarion Books | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 20 September, 1999 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0395920841 / 9780395920848 | | List Price: | $18.00 | | You Save: | $8.07 | | Amazon Price: | $9.93 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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In 1879 eighty-four Sioux boys and girls became the inaugural group of students to be enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Carlisle was the first institution opened by the federal government for the education of Native American children. The brainchild of former Indian fighter Captain Richard Pratt, Carlisle, like other schools that followed, was established to teach Indian children the "white man's way." For some, like Olympian Jim Thorpe, Indian School led to success and prosperity, but for many others it was an education in alienation and isolation. Michael L. Cooper examines the Indian Schools and tells the personal stories, often in their own words, of several young students, including Zitkala-Sa, who wrote, "Like a slender tree, I had been uprooted from my mother, nature, and God."
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• Review Of Indian School 05 January, 2000
This absorbing book addresses the issue of cultural imperialism in thoughtful ways. It explores how federally-funded schools sought to teach "the white man's ways" to Native Americans children in the late-nineteeenth and early twentieth century. Balanced and sensitive to the past, Cooper acknowledges that the teachers generally had good intentions and opened opportunities for some students. Thre is even a delightful chapter on "Pop" Warner's successful football program a the school in Carlisle PA. Yet, without resorting to heavy-handed editorializing, the author uses the evidence to establish that the inability to accept cultural differences harmed the youths. Cooper does an outstanding job telling the story from the students' point of view. The photographs of daily life at the school are wonderful. Rich in personal details, Indian School will engage young readers.
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• Would Give It A 0 If I Could 24 February, 2004
This book is HORRIBLE! If you want to educate yourself or students or children - please skip this book. It will only fill your head with inaccurate and stereotypical information. This book is poorly researched and written without any Native American input at all (I know this is true because when asked during an interview if he talked to Native people about their experiences, he said Native people dont want to talk about it). He writes only from collected pieces of information that cover up boarding school crimes such as molestation, severe abuse and murder. Boarding schools were not happy times. Just because some great people came out of it does not mean it benefited them - it just means that these children would survive anything thrown at them. PLEASE do not read this book to children! Please!
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• The Worst Educational Book About Native Americans. 15 May, 2002
this book is awful. we are not called indians. We are native americans. this book has so many stereotypes. My grandmother was taken from her family when she was 7 years old. she did not see her family until she was 16 years old. i am truly afended by this book because i am a native american and my family did go through the bording school era. All i have to say is that Michael L. Cooper should have researched more and thought about how we would be afected by this book.
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• Indian School: Teaching The White Man's Way 31 May, 2002
The Indian Boarding School is one of the most horrific ideas anyone could have come up with to rid them selves of people. Children, often at very young ages, were taken, sometimes kidnapped, to a school far from their homes and families. As if this wasn't enough they were not allowed to speak their own languages, wear their own clothing, and practice traditions that had been in their cultures for countless generations. They were forced to become Christians, forced to speak English, and forced to wear Victorian-style clothing, and many more things. If they broke a rule they were severly punished. We are still feeling the affects of this today. Many tribes have or nearly have lost their language and traditions, and with them their sense of being unique. Of course none of this is told in Michael L. Cooper's "Indian School: Teaching the White Man's Way." Mr Cooper wrote, "When they were teenagers Native Americans married, had children and went on the warpath." But Mr. Cooper fails to mention that many cultures married and had children as teenagers. They had to, life expectancy was so short, if they didn't they would die out. Many cultures still marry as teens today. It wasn't until just a few decades ago that many people stopped doing this. And not all Native Americans thought the Black Hills were "the holiest spot on earth." I mean really in pre-Columbian times North America was covered with indigenous peoples, it is very hard to belive that all of them thought that the Black Hills were/are sacred. I could go on and on about this book but the review has a maximum of 1,000 words so I will cut it short. This book stinks! I do not recommend it. Mr. Cooper could researched a lot better. I hope this book is never used as a reference to Indian Boarding School life. Thank You for your time.
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