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