Making Lamanites : Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000 /

Making Lamanites : Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000 /

Explores why many Native youth in the Indian Student Placement Program adopted a new notion of identity. From 1947 to 2000, some 50,000 Native American children left the reservations to live with Mormon foster families. The access to educational opportunities and cross cultural experiences appealed...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garrett, Matthew, 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. > Indian Student Placement Program > History.
Indians of North America > Education > History > 20th century.
Indian foster children > Education > United States > History > 20th century.
Indian students > United States > History > 20th century.
Indians of North America > Ethnic identity > History > 20th century.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > History > 20th century.
Church work with Indians > Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > History > 20th century.
United States > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Reimagining Israel : the emergence of Mormon Indian theology and policy in the nineteenth century
  • Turning to placement : the Navajo Nation, Helen John, and the pursuit of education, 1880s-1940s
  • The institutional rise of the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-1972
  • The placement experience : entering Mormon homes and communities
  • The placement experience : becoming a Lamanite
  • Rival ideologies and rival Indians : self-determination in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Decline of the placement program, 1972-2000.