Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School

by Farina Noelani King, Michael P. Taylor, James R. Swensen

Returning Home features and contextualizes the creative works of Din? (Navajo) boarding school students at the Intermountain Indian School, which was the largest federal Indian boarding school between 1950 and 1984. Din? student art and poetry reveal ways that boarding school students sustained and contributed to Indigenous cultures and communities despite assimilationist agendas and pressures.

This book works to recover the lived experiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816540926
• ISBN13: 9780816540921
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"