Pipestone : my life in an Indian boarding school
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Published
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©2010.
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Book
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Port Angeles - YA Non-Fic
YA 371.8299 FORTUNA
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Autobiographies
Autobiographies -- Juvenile literature.
Fortunate Eagle, Adam, -- 1929- -- Childhood and youth.
Indian students -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Indian students -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Biography.
Indian students -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Juvenile literature.
Indian students -- Minnesota -- Pipestone.
Indians of North America -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Minnesota -- Pipestone.
Indians of North America -- Education -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Education -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Education -- Minnesota -- Pipestone.
Indians of North America -- Education -- Minnesota -- Pipestone.
Indians of North America -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Residential schools -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Indians of North America -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- Residential schools -- History -- 20th century.
Indians of North America.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Minnesota -- Pipestone -- History -- 20th century.
Ojibwa children -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Ojibwa children -- Biography.
Pipestone (Minn.)
Pipestone (Minn.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Pipestone (Minn.) -- Biography.
Pipestone (Minn.) -- Juvenile literature.
Pipestone Indian Industrial Training School -- History.
Young adult literature

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Published
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©2010.
Physical Desc
xviii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
UPC
40017724029
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 6.2, 11 Points

Notes

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191).
Description
Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers a memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. He 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. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a 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."
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,6.2,11,149948.
Awards
American Indian Library Association, American Indian Youth Literature Award, 2012