Bøger i North American Indian Prose Award serien

Bloomfield Academy was founded in 1852 by the Chickasaw Nation in conjunction with missionaries. It remained open for nearly a century, offering Chickasaw girls one of the finest educations in the West. Drawing on letters, reports, interviews with students, and school programs, this work recounts the academy's success story.

A comprehensive history of the Anishnaabeg people of the Lake Huron borderlands between the United States and Canada.

Looks at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the 20th century. This book focuses on the letters - written by parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota - that show how profoundly families were affected by their experiences.

Combining scholarly analysis, first-person accounts, illuminates the modern Athabascan world.

From the streets of Tulsa to the jungles of Vietnam, this autobiography of Vincent Mendoza presents a portray of one man's life. It presents a turbulent family story with all the ups and downs of making it in America today.

Presents the author's own story and the story of her family. This title recalls her grandmother, Flora Driving Hawk, teaching her how storytelling enthralls and how a quilt can represent all that holds a family together.

Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. This title recalls the Chilocco students' loneliness and demoralization, and mutual support binding them together.

A depiction of contemporary life in Native America. This book presents an Indian worldview in its holistic complexity and integrity, and is an addition to the literature of white-Indian cultural interrelationships. It presents an account of the author's life on the road, driving throughout Oklahoma and Arkansas teaching poetry in the schools.

Tells the story of tribal nation building in the modern era. Drawing on field research, oral histories, and archival sources, Valerie Lambert explores the struggles and triumphs of the Choctaw building a new government and launching an ambitious program of economic development in the late twentieth century, achieving a partial restoration of the tribe's former glory.