Storytelling as Survival: The Native American Struggle For Selfhood and Identity
Theses
Author/Creator
Katryn Anne Sandler
Description
English Thesis (Ph.D.)--Binghamton University, 2010.
Looks at attempts to introduce self government on Federal Indian reservations using the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act, the termination policy, and the Indian Claims Commission Act.
Joint issue with: Indigenous Studies Today Issue 1, Spring 2006.
Reports results of interviews conducted with 61 individuals who attended boarding schools or were in the urban boarding home program from the late 1940s through the early 1980s, as well as one individual whose parents were boarding school graduates.