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Author Cooper, Michael L., 1950-

Title Indian school : teaching the white man's way / Michael L. Cooper.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Clarion Books, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS Non-Fiction  370 COOPER    ---  Available
Description 103 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-100) and index.
Indexed In: Wilson's Junior High School, August 2001
Publisher's Weekly, October 1999
Booklist, December 1999
Kirkus Starred, October 1999
Horn Book, January 2000
Book Report, January 2000
Summary Examines the purpose and daily routine of the Indian schools, focusing on the eighty-four Sioux boys and girls who left their tribe in 1879 to become students at Carlisle Indian School, the first institution opened by the federal government for the education of Native American children.
Audience 6.0
5-8 Follett Library Resources
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG RL 7.4 2.0 PCMS
Subject Indians of North America -- Education -- Juvenile literature.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Education.
Off-reservation boarding schools.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
ISBN 0395920841

 
    
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