Objects of Survivance: A Material History of the American Indian School Experience

by Chip Colwell and Lindsay M. Montgomery

Book Overview

Between 1893 and 1903, Jesse H. Bratley worked in Indian schools across five reservations in the American West. As a teacher Bratley was charged with forcibly assimilating Native Americans through education. Although tasked with eradicating their culture, Bratley became entranced by it--collecting artifacts and taking glass plate photographs to document the Native America he encountered. Today, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science's Jesse H. Bratley...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607329921
• ISBN13: 9781607329923
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.9" x 11.5"