Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions

by Susan Burch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469661624
• ISBN13: 9781469661629
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.7" x 9.1"