Vanished in Hiawatha : the story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians / Carla Joinson.
2016
RC445.S8 J65 2016eb
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Vanished in Hiawatha : the story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians / Carla Joinson.
Author
Joinson, Carla, author.
ISBN
9780803288249 (electronic bk.)
0803288247 (electronic bk.)
9780803288263 (electronic bk.)
0803288263 (electronic bk.)
9780803280984
080328098X
9780803288256 (mobi)
0803288247 (electronic bk.)
9780803288263 (electronic bk.)
0803288263 (electronic bk.)
9780803280984
080328098X
9780803288256 (mobi)
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Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
Language
English
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RC445.S8 J65 2016eb
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362.2/109783
Summary
"Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians 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 and what went on in South Dakota? 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 patients. Grim Shadows is the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of Native American patients at a notorious insane asylum whose history helps us to understand the broader mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher
"A harrowing look into the mistreatment of Native American patients at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians from 1902-1934"-- Provided by publisher
"A harrowing look into the mistreatment of Native American patients at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians from 1902-1934"-- Provided by publisher
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Table of Contents
Where will all the insane Indians go?
Life in an asylum
The bad start begins
Helpless
A superintendent in trouble
Which way to Canton?
The reign of Harry Reid Hummer begins
Reforms and Canton Asylum
Let the investigations begin
Life among the Indians
Another sort of prison
The world outside
Hummer can't keep up
Ripples in the waters
The winds of change
The gale blows
Epilogue
Appendix A: Patients treated at Canton Asylum
Appendix B: Patients interred in Canton Asylum Cemetery
Appendix C: Patients transferred to St. Elizabeths.
Life in an asylum
The bad start begins
Helpless
A superintendent in trouble
Which way to Canton?
The reign of Harry Reid Hummer begins
Reforms and Canton Asylum
Let the investigations begin
Life among the Indians
Another sort of prison
The world outside
Hummer can't keep up
Ripples in the waters
The winds of change
The gale blows
Epilogue
Appendix A: Patients treated at Canton Asylum
Appendix B: Patients interred in Canton Asylum Cemetery
Appendix C: Patients transferred to St. Elizabeths.