Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program 1947-2000 - Couverture souple

Garrett, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1607815699 ISBN 13 : 9781607815693

Editeur : University of Utah Press,U.S., 2016

Synopsis

Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies

From 1947 to 2000, some 50,000 Native American children left the reservations to live with Mormon foster families. While some dropped out of the Indian Student Placement Program (ISPP), for others the months spent living with LDS families often proved more penetrating than expected.
The ISPP emerged in the mid-twentieth century, championed by Apostle Spencer W. Kimball, aligned with the then national preferences to terminate tribal entities and assimilate indigenous people. But as the paradigm shifted to self-determination, critics labeled the program as crudely assimilationist. Some ISPP students like Navajo George P. Lee fiercely defended the LDS Church before native peers and Congress, contending that it empowered Native people and instilled the true Indian identity; meanwhile Red Power activists organized protests in Salt Lake City, denouncing LDS colonization. As a new generation of church leaders quietly undercut the Indian programs, many of its former participants felt a sense of confusion and abandonment as Mormon distinctions for Native people faded in the late twentieth century.
Making Lamanites traces this student experience within contested cultural and institutional landscapes to reveal how and why many of these Native youth adopted a new notion of Indianness.

Winner of the Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book Award from the Utah Division of State History.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthew Garrett is professor of history at Bakersfield College, where he also works in the college archives. He is an editor for the college's Roughneck Review and recently joined the editorial board of the Journal of Mormon History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Utah Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1607815699
• ISBN 13: 9781607815693
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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