Western Studies: Native American Boarding Schools

Western Studies: Native American Boarding Schools Bibliography

This bibliography includes personal memoirs, academic and popular works, and literary and artistic works relating to Native American Indian education and boarding schools.

Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Anderson, Gary Clayton. Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.

Archuleta, Margaret, Brenda J. Child, and K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000. Heard Museum; Distributed by Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000.

Armstrong, S. C., and Thomas Lawrence Riggs. The Indian Question. Normal School Steam Press, print, 1883. [on microfilm]

Bantin, Philip C., and Mark G. Thiel. Guide to Catholic Indian Mission and School Records in Midwest Repositories. Marquette University Libraries, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, 1984.

Bender, Nathan E. Camp Criers: The Montana Native Press. West Virginia University Libraries, West Virginia University, 1996. [typed manuscript]

Bloom, John. To Show What an Indian Can Do: Sports at Native American Boarding Schools. University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Bradley, Charles C. After the Buffalo Days: Documents on the Crow Indians from the 1880’s to the 1920’s.  Master of Science in Education thesis, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 1970.

Brave Bird, Mary, and Richard Erdoes. Lakota Woman. Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.

Burnette, Viola. Confessions of an Iyeska. The University of Utah Press, 2018.

Calloway, Colin G. First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History. Fourth edition, Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012.

Child, Brenda J. Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940. University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Clark, William Leslie and Walker D. Wyman. Charles Round Low Cloud: Voice of the Winnebago.  University of Wisconsin River-Falls Press, 1973.

Cobb, Amanda J. Listening to Our Grandmothers’ Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949. University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Coleman, Michael C. American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930. University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

Colton, Larry. Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn. Warner Books, 2000.

Crawley, Cheryl Kay Schultze. Cultures Out of Sync: Bilingual Education on the Crow Indian Reservation. 2008.

Eastman, Charles Alexander. From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian. Little Brown, and Co, 1916.

Eastman, Elaine Goodale, and Kay Graber. Sister to the Sioux: The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-91. University of Nebraska Press, 1978.

Edwards, Brendan Frederick R. Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada Before 1960. Scarecrow Press, 2005.

Ellis, Clyde. To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920. University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Emery, Jacqueline. Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press. University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

______.  Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920. Manuscript, 2011. 

Fear-Segal, Jacqueline. White Man’s Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation. University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

Fedullo, Mick. Light of the Feather: Pathways Through Contemporary Indian America. W. Morrow, 1992.

Fixico, Donald Lee. Indian Resilience and Rebuilding: Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West. The University of Arizona Press, 2013.

Flecky, Michael, and Harold Moore. Photo Album: St. Francis Mission, School, and Community, 1886-1976. Rosebud Educational Society, 1976.

Fuchs, Estelle, and Robert J. Havighurst. To Live on This Earth: American Indian Education. Anchor books edition, Anchor Press, 1973.

Golden, Gertrude. Red Moon Called Me: Memoirs of a School Teacher in the Government Indian Service. Naylor Co, 1954.

Hall, Moss. Go, Indians!: Stories of the Great Indian Athletes of the Carlisle School. Ward Ritchie Press, 1971.

Henson, Eric C. et al. The State of the Native Nations: Conditions Under U.S. Policies of Self-determination : The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Hipp, Martha Louise. Sovereign Schools: How Shoshones and Arapahos Created a High School on the Wind River Reservation. University of Nebraska Press, 2019.

Hittman, Michael. Corbett Mack: The Life of a Northern Paiute. University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1996.

Holy Rosary Mission. Red Cloud Indian School: Centennial Memory Book. [Pine Ridge, SD: The Mission] 1988.

Hopkins, John P. Indian Education for All: Decolonizing Indigenous Education in Public Schools. Teachers College Press, 2020.

Horne, Esther Burnett, et al. Essie’s Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher. University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 

Hoxie, Frederick E. Talking Back to Civilization: Indian Voices from the Progressive Era. Bedford/St. Martins, 2001.

 Hutchinson, Elizabeth, Gertrude Keasebier, and Henook-Makhewe-Kelenaka. The Indian Craze: Primitivism, Modernism, and Transculturation in American Art, 1890-1915. Duke University Press, 2009.                                

Jackson, Curtis Emanuel, and Marcia J. Galli. A History of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Its Activities Among Indians. R & E Research Associates, 1977.

Jacobs, Margaret D. White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Jaramillo, Cleofas M. Romance of a Little Village Girl. Naylor Co, 1955.

Jones, Sondra. Being and Becoming Ute: The Story of an American Indian People. The University of Utah Press, 2019.

Joseph, Robert. Namwayut: We Are All One : A Pathway to Reconciliation. Page Two Books, 2022.

Katanski, Amelia V. Learning to Write “Indian”: The Boarding-School Experience and American Indian Literature. University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.

Katz, Jane B. Let Me Be a Free Man: A Documentary History of Indian Resistance. Lerner Publications Co, 1975.

Krupat, Arnold. Boarding School Voices: Carlisle Indian School Students Speak. University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

La Flesche, Francis. The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe. University of Wisconsin Press, 1963.

Lajimodiere, Denise K. Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors. North Dakota State University Press, 2019.

Lentis, Marinella. Colonized Through Art: American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889-1915. University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Lewandowski, Tadeusz. Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Sa. University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.

Libhart, Myles, and Arthur Amiotte. Photographs and Poems by Sioux Children from the Porcupine Day School, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota. [Tipi Shop], 1971.

Lindquist, G. E. E., Erna Gunther, John H. Holst, and Flora Warren Seymour. The Indian in American Life. Friendship Press, 1944.

Lomawaima, K. Tsianina. They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School. University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

McGeough, Michelle. Through Their Eyes: Indian Painting in Santa Fe, 1918-1945. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 2009.

Markowitz, Harvey. Converting the Rosebud: Catholic Mission and the Lakotas, 1886-1916. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.

Medicine Crow, Joseph, and Herman J. Viola. Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond. National Geographic, 2006.

Meyer, Roy Willard. History of the Santee Sioux: United States Indian Policy On Trial. First Bison Book printing, University of Nebraska Press, 1980/1967.

Newland, Bryan Todd. Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report: Volume 1. United States Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary, 2022.

Pearson, J. Diane. The Nez Percé in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival. University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.

Pease, Margery. A Worthy Work in a Needy Time: The Montana Industrial School for Indians (Bond’s Mission). M. Pease, 1986.

Peavy, Linda S., and Ursula Smith. Full-court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World. University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.

Prucha, Francis Paul. American Indian Policy in Crisis: Christian Reformers and the Indian, 1865-1900. University of Oklahoma Press, 1976.

_______.  The Churches and the Indian Schools, 1888-1912. University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

Reyhner, Jon Allan. Teaching Indigenous Students: Honoring Place, Community, and Culture. University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.

Reyhner, Jon Allan, and Jeanne M. Oyawin Eder. American Indian Education: A History. University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

Riney, Scott. The Rapid City Indian School, 1898-1933. University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.

Rushing, W. Jackson, and Hadley Jerman. Allan Houser Drawings: The Centennial Exhibition. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, the University of Oklahoma, 2014.

Seger, John H. and Stanley Vestal. Early Days Among the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians.  University of Oklahoma Press, 1956.

Spindler, Will H. Tragedy Strikes at Wounded Knee. Gordon Journal Pub. Co, 1955.

Spoonhunter, Bob. Arapaho Memories. Wyoming Indian High School, 1985.

Sprague, Donovin Arleigh. Cheyenne River Sioux, South Dakota. Arcadia, 2003.

_______. Pine Ridge Reservation. Arcadia, 2004.

St. Labre Indian Mission School, and Larry L. Cunningham. St. Labre Indian School: Celebrating 125 Years, 1884-2009. [Ashland, MT:] St. Labre Indian School, 2009.

St. Michael’s Mission, Ethete, Wyoming: This Is a Strange Land… [publisher not identified], 1920.

Standing Bear, Luther, E. A. Brininstool, and Richard N. Ellis. My People, the Sioux. Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 1975 [orig. 1928].

Steckbeck, John S. Fabulous Redmen: The Carlisle Indians and Their Famous Football Teams. J. Horace McFarland Co, 1951.

Talbot, Ethelbert. My People of the Plains. Harper & Brothers, 1906.

Tatum, Lawrie. Our Red Brothers: And the Peace Policy of President Ulysses S. Grant. University of Nebraska Press, 1970.

Thomas, Nathaniel S. Building an Indian Village: St. Michael’s Mission, Ethete, Wyoming. [publisher not identified], 1920.

Treuer, David. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present. Riverhead Books, 2019.

United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. The American Indians: Answers to 101 Questions. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1974.

United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. List of Federal Indian Boarding Schools as of April 1, 2022. [United States Bureau of Indian Affairs], 2022.

United States Department of the Interior. Federal Indian Boarding School Sites. U.S Department of the Interior, Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, 2022.

Vail, Albert L.  A Memorial of James M. Haworth, Superintendent of United States Indian Schools. Press of N.H. Farey, 1886.

Weeks, Philip. “They Made Us Many Promises”: The American Indian Experience, 1524 to the Present. Harlan Davidson, 2002.

Witmer, Linda F. The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1879-1918. Cumberland County Historical Society, 1993.

Ziegler, Winfred H. and Mildred Stead Capron. Wyoming Indians: Describing the Work of the Episcopal Church in Wyoming Amongst the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribes : “The Church and the Indians”. [The Diocesan Office], 1944.

Juvenile

Grutman, Jewel H., Susie Shulman, Gay Matthaei, and Adam Cvijanovic. The Ledgerbook of Thomas Blue Eagle. Lickle Pub. Co, 1997.

Rinaldi, Ann. My Heart Is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl. Scholastic, 1999. [Fiction]

Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk. Sioux Women: Traditionally Sacred. South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2016.

Manuscript and archival collections

MS 045 – Bureau of Indian Affairs – Wind River Agency Photograph Collection.

1930s-1940s black & white photographic collection of people and buildings on the Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming, including some school images.

MS 068 – Dr. Ferdinand Shoemaker Papers.

Dr. Shoemaker papers, printed material and photographs.  Correspondence, reports and documents relating to Dr. Shoemaker’s tenure as a physician with the Bureau of Indian Affairs from about 1905 to 1920.  Includes numerous photographs of clinics, patients, students, etc….  Also contains copies of publications about or by Native Americans during that period, including Indian School Journal and the Carlisle school publications  Indian Craftsman/ Red Man.

MS 557 – Wyoming Indian School Collection, Arapahoe Language Study Unit on Names.

Nathan E. Bender, April 2026