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• Title:Children left behind : dark legacy of Indian mission boarding schools / by Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji) ; illustrations by Denise Giago.
  
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• Author/Creator:Giago, Tim A., 1934-2022 author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light Pub., ©2006.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ERU G53 C45 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Catholic Church--Corrupt practices.
  Christianity and culture--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
  Off-reservation boarding schools--United States--History.
  Racism in education--United States.
  Racism--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies
  Poems
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:ix, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:"Tim Giago weaves memoir, commentary, reflection and poetry together to boldly illustrate his often-horrific experiences as a child at an Indian Mission boarding school run by the Catholic Church. Through his words, the experience of one Indian child becomes a metaphor for the experience of many Indian children, who were literally ripped from their tribal roots and torn from their families for nine months of the year in order to be molded to better fit into mainstream America. They were not allowed to speak their own languages or follow their traditional customs. As a result of this traumatic and divisive policy, the Mission school experience for most young Indians resulted in isolation, confusion, and intense psychological pain, as they were forced to reject their own culture and spirituality. This has contributed to problems including alcoholism, drug abuse, family violence and general alienation in an entire generation of Native Americans. Dramatic and intensely moving black-and white illustrations by Giago's daughter Denise illuminate the text."--Publisher's website.
  
• Local note:First Nations author.
  
• Notes:Foreward by E. Ray Walker.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:1574160869 (pbk.)
  9781574160864 (pbk.)
  9781574160869 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Introduction: speaking for the once-silenced voice
  Part I. At Holy Rosary Mission
  Prelude: shadows of memory
  Indian school days and nights.
  In memorium: shadows from the spirit world
  Angels and demons
  Young love and loss
  Huner: body & soul
  Shards of memory
  Escape
  Part II. From the distance of time
  Abuses and remedies
  Indian spirituality
  Epilogue.