Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide: v. 23 (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture) - Softcover

Christine G. Perkell (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080613139X ISBN 13: 9780806131399

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999

Synopsis

The Rapid City Indian School was one of twenty-eight off-reservation boarding schools built and operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to prepare American Indian children for assimilation into white society. From 1898 to 1933 the "School of the Hills" housed Northern Plains Indian children--including Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, Shoshone, Arapaho, Crow, and Flathead--from elementary through middle grades.Scott Riney uses letters, archival materials, and oral histories to provide a candid view of daily life at the school as seen by students, parents, and school employees.The Rapid City Indian School, 1898-1933 offers a new perspective on the complexities of American Indian interactions with a BIA boarding school. It shows how parents and students made the best of their limited educational choices--using the school to pursue their own educational goals--and how the school linked urban Indians to both the services and the controls of reservation life.

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About the Author

Christine Perkell is Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University. She is the author of The Poet's Truth: A study of the Poet in Virgil's “Georgics.”

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080613139X
• ISBN 13: 9780806131399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352