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The Resource Native students at work : American Indian labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945, Kevin Whalen ; foreword by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

Native students at work : American Indian labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945, Kevin Whalen ; foreword by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

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Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young Native men and women in and around Los Angeles as domestic workers, farmhands, and factory laborers. For the first time, historian Kevin Whalen reveals the challenges these students faced as they left their homes for boarding schools and then endured an "outing program" that aimed to strip them of their identities and cultures by sending them to live and work among non-Native people. Tracing their journeys, Whalen shows how male students faced low pay and grueling conditions on industrial farms near the edge of the city, yet still made more money than they could near their reservations. Similarly, many young women serving as domestic workers in Los Angeles made the best of their situations by tapping into the city?s indigenous social networks and even enrolling in its public schools. As Whalen reveals, despite cruel working conditions and poor treatment, Native people used the outing program to their advantage whenever they could, forming urban indigenous communities and sharing money and knowledge gained in the city with those back home.?
Language
eng
Work
Publication
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1 online resource
Contents
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Labored Learning: The Outing System at Sherman Institute; CHAPTER 2 Indian School, Company Town: Students from Sherman Institute at the Fonatana Farms Company; CHAPTER 3 Into the City: Quechan and Mojave Domestic Workers in Los Angeles; CHAPTER 4 Indians "Should Not Go There": The Great Depression and the End of Outing; CONCLUSION: Unthinkable Histories? Native People, Bureaucracies, and Work; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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9780295806662
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Native students at work : American Indian labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945
Title
Native students at work
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American Indian labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945
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Kevin Whalen ; foreword by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
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American Indian labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young Native men and women in and around Los Angeles as domestic workers, farmhands, and factory laborers. For the first time, historian Kevin Whalen reveals the challenges these students faced as they left their homes for boarding schools and then endured an "outing program" that aimed to strip them of their identities and cultures by sending them to live and work among non-Native people. Tracing their journeys, Whalen shows how male students faced low pay and grueling conditions on industrial farms near the edge of the city, yet still made more money than they could near their reservations. Similarly, many young women serving as domestic workers in Los Angeles made the best of their situations by tapping into the city?s indigenous social networks and even enrolling in its public schools. As Whalen reveals, despite cruel working conditions and poor treatment, Native people used the outing program to their advantage whenever they could, forming urban indigenous communities and sharing money and knowledge gained in the city with those back home.?
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Whalen, Kevin
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index present
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English
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non fiction
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  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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Indigenous confluences
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  • Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.)
  • Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.)
  • Off-reservation boarding schools
  • Indian students
  • Indian students
  • Indian students
  • Indians of North America
  • Women household employees
  • Agricultural laborers
  • Indians of North America
  • Riverside (Calif.)
  • EDUCATION
  • EDUCATION
  • Agricultural laborers
  • Indian students
  • Indians of North America
  • Indians of North America
  • Off-reservation boarding schools
  • Women household employees
  • California
  • California
  • California, Southern
  • Ethnic & Race Studies
  • Gender & Ethnic Studies
  • Social Sciences
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
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Native students at work : American Indian labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945, Kevin Whalen ; foreword by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
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Publication
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unknown
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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rdacarrier
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multicolored
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text
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Contents
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Labored Learning: The Outing System at Sherman Institute; CHAPTER 2 Indian School, Company Town: Students from Sherman Institute at the Fonatana Farms Company; CHAPTER 3 Into the City: Quechan and Mojave Domestic Workers in Los Angeles; CHAPTER 4 Indians "Should Not Go There": The Great Depression and the End of Outing; CONCLUSION: Unthinkable Histories? Native People, Bureaucracies, and Work; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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ocn946887650
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unknown
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1 online resource
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unknown
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online
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9780295806662
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2016002211
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unknown
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computer
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rdamedia
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  • c
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22573/ctvctfvst
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not applicable
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unknown
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unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)946887650
Label
Native students at work : American Indian labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945, Kevin Whalen ; foreword by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
Publication
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Labored Learning: The Outing System at Sherman Institute; CHAPTER 2 Indian School, Company Town: Students from Sherman Institute at the Fonatana Farms Company; CHAPTER 3 Into the City: Quechan and Mojave Domestic Workers in Los Angeles; CHAPTER 4 Indians "Should Not Go There": The Great Depression and the End of Outing; CONCLUSION: Unthinkable Histories? Native People, Bureaucracies, and Work; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Control code
ocn946887650
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource
File format
unknown
Form of item
online
Isbn
9780295806662
Lccn
2016002211
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Note
JSTOR
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
22573/ctvctfvst
Quality assurance targets
not applicable
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
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(OCoLC)946887650

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