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Allotment and Assimilation Era
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Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
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confinement
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Federal boarding school investigative initiative
forced confinement
Fort Motor Company
history of medicine
House of the Good Shepherd
Indigenous futurity
indigenous labor
land dispossession
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medical confinement
Native American boarding schools
Native American history
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Progressive Era US
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settler colonialism
settler institutions
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vocational training
white American deputization
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- ISBN 9781478031260
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Mar 2025
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination. In so doing, Whitt centers the experiences of Indigenous youth and adults alike at the Carlisle Indian School, Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, Ford Motor Company Factory, House of the Good Shepherd, and other Progressive Era facilities. She demonstrates that in the administration of these institutions, which involved moving Indigenous people from one location to another, everyday white Americans became deputized as agents of the settler order. Bringing together Native American history, settler colonial studies, and the history of medicine, Whitt breaks new ground by showing how the confinement of Indigenous people across interlocking institutional sites helped concretize networks of white racial power-a regime that Native nations and communities continue to negotiate and actively resist today.
Sarah A. Whitt is Assistant Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
