20th century social history
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Author_Susan Burch
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Canton
Canton Asylum
carceral studies
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cemeteries
Cora Winona Faribault
critical disability studies
cross-generational trauma
decolonization
Elizabeth Faribault
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eugenics
Harry R. Hummer
Hiawatha Asylum
history
history of medicine
incarceration
J. Kay Davis
Lizzie Red Owl
mad in America
Mad studies
medical model of disability
Menominee Nation
Narcotic Farms
Native American Indigenous Studies
Native ancestors
Native kinship
Native self-determination
Native storytelling
political-relational theory of disability
Prairie Band Potawatomi
psychiatric institutionalization
sanism
Settler ableism
settler colonialism
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
slow violence
South Dakota
St. Elizabeths Hospital (DC)
transinstitutionalization
Western medicine
Product details
- ISBN 9781469661612
- Weight: 508g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2021
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. Despite the long reach of institutionalization for those forcibly held at the asylum, the tenacity of relationships extended within and beyond institutional walls.
In this accessible and innovative work, Susan Burch tells the story of the Indigenous people-families, communities, and nations, across generations to the present day-who have experienced the impact of this history. Drawing on oral history interviews, correspondence, material objects, and archival sources, Burch reframes the histories of institutionalized people and the places that held them. In so doing, Committed expands the boundaries of Native American history, disability studies, and U.S. social and cultural history generally.
In this accessible and innovative work, Susan Burch tells the story of the Indigenous people-families, communities, and nations, across generations to the present day-who have experienced the impact of this history. Drawing on oral history interviews, correspondence, material objects, and archival sources, Burch reframes the histories of institutionalized people and the places that held them. In so doing, Committed expands the boundaries of Native American history, disability studies, and U.S. social and cultural history generally.
Susan Burch is professor of American studies at Middlebury College.
