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Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
Carla Joinson
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| #1342487 in Books | 2016-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.29 x1.33 x6.12l,.0 | File type: PDF | 424 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating view of Native Americans and early 20th century ideas of mental health|By Kaye Lavender|The Canton insane asylum in South Dakota is the only American institution created for a specific group: Native Americans. Carla Joinson has done an excellent job showing how this asylum came about and how it operated within the context of the early 20th century society. Emerging||
"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
Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians 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...
You easily download any file type for your device.Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians | Carla Joinson.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
