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Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures

Contributor(s): Sowry, Nathan (Author)

ISBN: 9781496241924

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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Pub Date: April 1, 2025

Dewey: 973.0497

LCCN: 2024026896

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.94" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.43 lbs) 358 pages

Series: Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology

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Description: Nathan Sowry examines how Native American students from the boarding school system, with its forced assimilated education, became key cultural informants for anthropologists conducting field work during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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"Through this examination of these Native Americans' personal and professional lives, readers gain insights into how they navigated a society determined to permanently alter them and their central roles in shaping the anthropological discipline."--G. R. Campbell, Choice

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