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Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (Paperba
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- 9781496223654
- ISBN
- 1496223659
- Binding
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- Book Title
- Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asyl
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Vanished in Hiawatha : the Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 426 Pages
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Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (also known as the Hiawatha Insane Asylum) quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often requiring only the signature of a reservation agent. Only nine Native patients in the asylum's history were committed by court order. Without interpreters, mental evaluations, or therapeutic programs, few patients recovered. But who cared about Indians in South Dakota? After three decades of complacency, both the superintendent and the city of Canton were surprised to discover that someone did care, and that a bitter fight to shut the asylum down was about to begin. In this disturbing tale, Carla Joinson unravels the question of why this institution persisted for so many years. She also investigates the people who allowed Canton Asylum's mismanagement to reach such staggering proportions and asks why its administrators and staff were so indifferent to the misery experienced by their patients. Vanished in Hiawatha is the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of Native American patients at a notorious asylum whose history helps us to understand the broader mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
1496223659
ISBN-13
9781496223654
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Publication Name
Vanished in Hiawatha : the Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
426 Pages
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Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
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"Just when we thought we had heard the worst about our treatment of Native Americans, along comes Carla Joinson with Vanished in Hiawatha . The story is painful, but Joinson's elegant narrative and prose get us through it. This powerful book is about Indians--and ourselves."--Catherine Robbins, author of All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos), "Anyone interested in ethnohistory, social history, and the evolution of public health and medicine will glean much value from this work."--Ken Zontek, Annals of Wyoming, "[Carla Joinson] exposes the notorious Canton Asylum with balance and compassion. Long overlooked, the story of this asylum has at last found a lucid, discerning, and worthy chronicler."--Philip Burnham, author of Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn, "A valuable resource for a number of different fields of scholarship, as well as for the average reader looking to learn about this unique institution."--John Truden, South Dakota History, "Carla Joinson's fine history of a harsh institution offers compelling glimpses of those forced to live there and a detailed look at the people who made it hell."--LLyn De Danaan, author of Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman's Life on Oyster Bay
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Where Will All the Insane Indians Go? 2. Life in an Asylum 3. The Bad Start Begins 4. Helpless 5. A Superintendent in Trouble 6. Which Way to Canton? 7. The Reign of Harry Reid Hummer Begins 8. Reforms and Canton Asylum 9. Let the Investigations Begin 10. Life among the Indians 11. Another Sort of Prison 12. The World Outside 13. Hummer Can't Keep Up 14. Ripples in the Waters 15. The Winds of Change 16. The Gale Blows Epilogue Afterthoughts Acknowledgments Appendix A: Patients Treated at Canton Asylum Appendix B: Patients Interred in Canton Asylum Cemetery Appendix C: Patients Transferred to St. Elizabeths Notes Bibliography Index
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United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, History
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Medical, History, Social Science
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