Boarding School Blues

Clifford E. Trafzer is a professor of American Indian history, director of public history, and director of graduate studies at the University of California, Riverside. His many books include As Long as the Grass Shall Grow and Rivers Flow: A History of Native Americans. Jean A. Keller is an adjunct professor of American Indian studies at Palomar College in San Marcos, California, and a private cultural resources consultant. She is the author of Empty Beds: Indian Student Health at Sherman Institute, 1902–1922. Lorene Sisquoc is the curator of the Sherman Indian Museum in Riverside, California. She teaches Native American traditions to high school students and instructs extension classes in Native American studies.

• Introduction: Clifford E. Trafzer (University of California-Riverside), Jean A. Keller (Palomar College), and Lorene Sisquoc (Sherman Indian Museum), "Origin and Development of the American Indian Boarding School System: An Introduction"; 1: David Wallace Adams (Cleveland State University), "Beyond Bleakness: The Brighter Side of Indian Boarding Schools, 1870-1940"; 2: Clyde Ellis (Elon University), "'We Had A Lot of Fun, But Of Course, That Wasn't the School Part': Life at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920"; 3: Jacqueline Fear-Segal (University of East Anglia, England), "The Man-on-the-band-stand at Carlisle Indian School: can he help reveal the children's experiences"; 4: Barbara C. Landis (Cumberland County Historical Society), "Putting Lucy Pretty Eagle to Rest"; 5: Scott Riney (Independent scholar), "Loosening the Bonds: The Rapid City Indian School in the 1920s"; 6: Tanya Rathbun (Independent scholar), "Hail Mary: The Catholic Experience at St. Boniface Indian School"; 7: Katrina A. Paxton (Independent scholar), "Learning Gender: Female Students at the Sherman Institute"; 8: Margaret Connell Szasz (University of New Mexico), "Viewing Boarding Schools Through a Wide-Angle Lens"; 9: Margaret D. Jacobs (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), "Indian Boarding Schools in Comparative Perspective: The Removal of Indigenous Children in the United States and Australia, 1880-1940"; 10: Patricia Dixon (Palomar College) and Clifford E. Trafzer (University of California-Riverside), "The Place of Indian Boarding Schools in Contemporary Society"