Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School by Fortunate Eagle, Adam

Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School

A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding schoolBest known as a leader of...
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Author: Adam Fortunate Eagle
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Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School by Fortunate Eagle, Adam

Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School

$33.55

Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School

$33.55
Author: Adam Fortunate Eagle
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school

Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a "contrary warrior" by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike.

Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier's pluralist vision was reshaping the federal boarding school system to promote greater respect for Native cultures and traditions. But this book is hardly a dry history of the late boarding school era. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a delightful journey into his childhood and the inner world of the boarding school. Along the way, he shares anecdotes of dormitory culture, student pranks, and warrior games. Although Fortunate Eagle recognizes Pipestone's shortcomings, he describes his time there as nothing less than "a little bit of heaven."

Were all Indian boarding schools the dispiriting places that history has suggested? This book allows readers to decide for themselves.



Author: Adam Fortunate Eagle
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 03/19/2010
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.67h x 6.83w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780806141145

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.2
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 149948 / Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School


Award: American Indian Youth Literature Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 08/01/2010 pg. 119
Multicultural Review 12/01/2010 pg. 76
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 61

About the Author
Fortunate Eagle, Adam: - Adam Fortunate Eagle is an Ojibwe artist, writer, and frequent guest lecturer. As an advocate for Native civil rights throughout his life, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the State University of New York, New Paltz. He is the author of Heart of the Rock: The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz and Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School.Hauptman, Laurence M.: -

Laurence M. Hauptman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History in the State University of New York, College at New Paltz, and the author of several books on the Iroquois in New York state.

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