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• Title:Pipestone : my life in an Indian boarding school / Adam Fortunate Eagle ; afterword by Laurence M. Hauptman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Fortunate Eagle, Adam, 1929-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©2010.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ERU E24 M9 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Canadian Subjects: First Nations--Minnesota--Pipestone--Residential schools--History--20th century.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Eagle, Adam Fortunate--Childhood and youth.
  Pipestone Indian Industrial Training School--History.
  Off-reservation boarding schools--Minnesota--Pipestone--History--20th century.
  Pipestone (Minn.)--Biography.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies
  
• Description:xviii, 193 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
  
• Summary:Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers a memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. He 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. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a 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."
  
• Local note:First Nations author - Ojibwe.
  
• Notes:Includes glossary (page 193)
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780806141145 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  080614114X
  
• Contents:Life at Pipestone Indian Boarding School, March 1935-June 1945
  Life after Pipestone Indian Boarding School
  App. 1. Excerpt from "The History of Pipestone Indian School," / Gaylord V. Reynolds
  App. 2. Brief history of "The Pipestone Indian School," courtesy Pipestone County Museum
  Afterword / Laurence M. Hauptman.