{"product_id":"colonized-through-art-american-indian-schools-and-art-education-1889-1915-paperback-softback-9781496228215","title":"Colonized Through Art; American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889–1915 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496228215","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eColonized Through Art\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerican Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889–1915\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarinella Lentis (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496228215\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e450 pages, 52 illustrations, 12 tables, 3 appendixes, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Readers who are interested in the residential schools, art education, the Arts and Crafts Movement, or the implementation of federal Indian policy at the onset of the twentieth century will find \u003ci\u003eColonized through Art\u003c\/i\u003e an original and engrossing addition to the existing literature in these areas. Lentis greatly expands our understanding of how the residential schools promoted assimilation through art and of the ways that Native students used their art for creative expressions of resistance.\"-Melissa D. Parkhurst, \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Lentis breaks new ground in explaining the presence of arts and crafts . . . in government schools that otherwise ‘suppressed every aspect of Indian cultures, traditions, and languages.’. . . Well worth the read.”-Lisa K. Neuman, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"Studies of federal Indian schooling have spawned a variety of approaches to the contested subject, but in \u003ci\u003eColonized through Art \u003c\/i\u003ethe independent scholar Marinella Lentis has moved the discussion in a new direction by evaluating the impact of art education in these schools.\"-Margaret Connell-Szasz, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eColonized through Art: American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889–1915\u003c\/i\u003e, Marinella Lentis provides an extensively researched study of art education in U.S. government operated boarding schools for American Indian students at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.\"-John Reyhner, \u003ci\u003ePacific Northwest Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Marinella Lentis deftly lays out the terrain of Indian school art programs. . . . A significant contribution to the field, \u003ci\u003eColonized through Art\u003c\/i\u003e clearly, succinctly, and broadly expands our knowledge of the ways government officials pushed assimilation through art-not to mention the resistance many Native students creatively expressed.”-Linda M. Waggoner, author of \u003ci\u003eFire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eColonized through Art\u003c\/i\u003e provides a thorough historical account of how white, Euro-American superintendents, curriculum writers, and teachers implemented cultural assimilation, which was manifested in public displays through nineteenth- and early twentieth-century boarding schools.\"-Kevin Slivka, \u003ci\u003eHistory of Education Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"I highly recommend the volume and believe it to be essential reading for those studying the Native American boarding school system in the United States.\"-Mackenzie J. Cory, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Childhood and Youth\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eColonized through Art \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how the federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the “colonization of consciousness,” hoping to instill the values and ideals of Western society while simultaneously maintaining a political, social, economic, and racial hierarchy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Focusing on the Albuquerque Indian School in New Mexico, the Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, and the world’s fairs and local community exhibitions, Marinella Lentis examines how the U.S. government’s solution to the “Indian problem” at the end of the nineteenth century emphasized education and assimilation. Educational theories at the time viewed art as the foundation of morality and as a way to promote virtues and personal improvement. These theories made art a natural tool for policy makers and educators to use in achieving their assimilationist goals of turning student “savages” into civilized men and women. Despite such educational regimes for students, however, Indigenous ideas about art often emerged “from below,” particularly from well-known art teachers such as Arizona Swayney and Angel DeCora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eColonized through Art\u003c\/i\u003e explores how American Indian schools taught children to abandon their cultural heritage and produce artificially “Native” crafts that were exhibited at local and international fairs. The purchase of these crafts by the general public turned students’ work into commodities and schools into factories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e List of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e List of Tables    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction    \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations    \u003cbr\u003e 1. Art “\u003cbr\u003eLifts Them to Her Own High Level”\u003cbr\u003e: Nineteenth-Century Art Education    \u003cbr\u003e 2. “\u003cbr\u003eAn Indispensable Adjunct to All Training of This Kind”\u003cbr\u003e: The Place of Art in Indian Schools    \u003cbr\u003e 3. “\u003cbr\u003eShow Him the Needs of Civilization and How to Adapt His Work to the Needs of the Hour”\u003cbr\u003e: Native Arts and Crafts in Indian Schools    \u003cbr\u003e 4. “\u003cbr\u003eThe Administration Has No Sympathy with Perpetuation of Any Except the Most Substantial of Indian Handicraft”\u003cbr\u003e: Art Education at the Albuquerque Indian School    \u003cbr\u003e 5. “\u003cbr\u003eDrawing and All the Natural Artistic Talents of the Pupils Are Encouraged and Cultivated”\u003cbr\u003e: Art Education at Sherman Institute    \u003cbr\u003e 6. “\u003cbr\u003eSusie Chase-the-Enemy and Her Friends Do Good Work”\u003cbr\u003e: Exhibits from Indian Schools at Fairs and Expositions    \u003cbr\u003e 7. “\u003cbr\u003eThe Comparison with the Work of White Scholars Is Not Always to the Credit of the Latter”\u003cbr\u003e: Art Training on Display at Educational Conventions        \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion    \u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: List of Fairs, Expositions, and Educational Conventions That Featured Indian School Exhibits    \u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Day, Reservation, and Non-Reservation Schools Represented at Major National and International Fairs    \u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: Layouts of Minneapolis and Boston Exhibits    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599914758424,"sku":"9781496228215","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/colonized-through-art-american-indian-schools-and-art-education-1889-1915-paperback-softback-9781496228215","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}