{"product_id":"vanished-in-hiawatha-the-story-of-the-canton-asylum-for-insane-indians-paperback-softback-9781496223654","title":"Vanished in Hiawatha; The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496223654","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVanished in Hiawatha\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarla Joinson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496223654\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e426 pages, 20 photos, 3 appendixes, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.686 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\"Anyone interested in ethnohistory, social history, and the evolution of public health and medicine will glean much value from this work.\"-Ken Zontek, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of Wyoming\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“[Carla Joinson] exposes the notorious Canton Asylum with balance and compassion. Long overlooked, the story of this asylum has at last found a lucid, discerning, and worthy chronicler.”-Philip Burnham, author of \u003ci\u003eSong of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"A valuable resource for a number of different fields of scholarship, as well as for the average reader looking to learn about this unique institution.\"-John Truden, \u003ci\u003eSouth Dakota History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Just when we thought we had heard the worst about our treatment of Native Americans, along comes Carla Joinson with \u003ci\u003eVanished in Hiawatha\u003c\/i\u003e. The story is painful, but Joinson’s elegant narrative and prose get us through it. This powerful book is about Indians-and ourselves.”-Catherine Robbins, author of \u003ci\u003eAll Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Carla Joinson’s fine history of a harsh institution offers compelling glimpses of those forced to live there and a detailed look at the people who made it hell.”-LLyn De Danaan, author of \u003ci\u003eKatie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman’s Life on Oyster Bay\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanished in Hiawatha\u003c\/i\u003e is the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of Native American patients at a notorious asylum whose history helps us to understand the broader mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBegun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (also known as the Hiawatha Insane Asylum) quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often requiring only the signature of a reservation agent. Only nine Native patients in the asylum’s history were committed by court order. Without interpreters, mental evaluations, or therapeutic programs, few patients recovered. But who cared about Indians in South Dakota?\u003cbr\u003e After three decades of complacency, both the superintendent and the city of Canton were surprised to discover that someone did care, and that a bitter fight to shut the asylum down was about to begin. In this disturbing tale, Carla Joinson unravels the question of why this institution persisted for so many years. She also investigates the people who allowed Canton Asylum’s mismanagement to reach such staggering proportions and asks why its administrators and staff were so indifferent to the misery experienced by their patients. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Where Will All the Insane Indians Go?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Life in an Asylum\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. The Bad Start Begins\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Helpless\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5. A Superintendent in Trouble\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6. Which Way to Canton?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e7. The Reign of Harry Reid Hummer Begins\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e8. Reforms and Canton Asylum\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e9. Let the Investigations Begin\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e10. Life among the Indians\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e11. Another Sort of Prison\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e12. The World Outside\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e13. Hummer Can’\u003cbr\u003et Keep Up\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e14. Ripples in the Waters\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e15. The Winds of Change\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e16. The Gale Blows\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAfterthoughts\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAppendix A: Patients Treated at Canton Asylum\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAppendix B: Patients Interred in Canton Asylum Cemetery\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAppendix C: Patients Transferred to St. Elizabeths\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBibliography\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599905911064,"sku":"9781496223654","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/vanished-in-hiawatha-the-story-of-the-canton-asylum-for-insane-indians-paperback-softback-9781496223654","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}