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Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
Carla Joinson
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| #809655 in Books | 2016-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.29 x1.33 x6.12l,.0 | File type: PDF | 424 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating view of Native Americans and early 20th century ideas of mental health|By Kaye Lavender|The Canton insane asylum in South Dakota is the only American institution created for a specific group: Native Americans. Carla Joinson has done an excellent job showing how this asylum came about and how it operated within the context of the early 20th century society. Emerging||
“Just when we thought we had heard the worst about our treatment of Native Americans, along comes Carla Joinson with Vanished in Hiawatha. The story is painful, but Joinson’s elegant narrative and prose get us through it. This powerful
Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often requiring only the signature of a reservation agent. Only nine Native patients in the asylum’s history were committed by court order. Without interpreters, mental...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians | Carla Joinson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
