Boarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twentieth century. At the heart of this book are the hundreds of letters written by parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas and the Flandreau School in South Dakota. These revealing letters show how profoundly entire families were affected by their experiences. Children, who often...

"Description of country schools and discussion of country school genre including the memories of students and teachers, illustrations of the schoolhouses and schoolhouse vignettes and personal experience researching the topic"--

Description of country schools and discussion of country school genre including the memories of students and teachers, illustrations of the schoolhouses and schoolhouse vignettes and personal experience researching the topic. -- Title page verso.