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Record Nr.

UNINA9910445547503321

Autore

Burch Susan

Titolo

Committed : remembering Native kinship in and beyond Institutions / / Susan Burch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The University of North Carolina Press, 2021

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

979-88-908588-3-2

1-4696-6162-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Critical indigeneities

Disciplina

970.00497

Soggetti

Inmates of institutions

Indians, Treatment of

Indians of North America - Government relations

Indians of North America

Indians of North America - Government relations - 1869-1934

Inmates of institutions - United States

Indians of North America - United States

Indians, Treatment of - North America

History

Biographies

United States

North America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Committed -- Many stories, many paths -- Erase and replace -- Generations -- Familiar -- Continuance -- Remembering -- Telling.

Sommario/riassunto

"In 1898, Congress passed a bill creating the only 'institution for insane Indians' in the country. The Canton Indian Insane Asylum in South Dakota (sometimes called the Hiawatha Insane Asylum) opened for the reception of patients in 1903. Not long after it opened, a 1927 investigation conducted by the Bureau of Indian Affairs determined that



many of the patients were not mentally ill in any clinical sense. Many Native Americans had been institutionalized for alcoholism, opposing government or business interests, or being culturally misunderstood. Nevertheless, more than 350 patients from 53 Native nations were detained at Canton, many of them relatives across generations. Conditions at the institution were dire; at least 121 of these patients died while there. In 1934, just 31 years after it accepted its first patient, Canton was closed and its story largely forgotten. In Committed, Susan Burch resurrects this history through the stories of individuals detained at Canton Asylum, told to her by their relatives, the asylum's staff, and the town's residents during this time"--