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Author Whalen, Kevin, author

Title Native students at work : American Indian labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945 / Kevin Whalen ; foreword by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 209 pages)
Series Indigenous confluences
Indigenous confluences.
Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Labored Learning: The Outing System at Sherman Institute; CHAPTER 2 Indian School, Company Town: Students from Sherman Institute at the Fonatana Farms Company; CHAPTER 3 Into the City: Quechan and Mojave Domestic Workers in Los Angeles; CHAPTER 4 Indians "Should Not Go There": The Great Depression and the End of Outing; CONCLUSION: Unthinkable Histories? Native People, Bureaucracies, and Work; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Summary Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal Indian boarding school in Riverside, California. The school placed young Native men and women in and around Los Angeles as domestic workers, farmhands, and factory laborers. For the first time, historian Kevin Whalen reveals the challenges these students faced as they left their homes for boarding schools and then endured an "outing program" that aimed to strip them of their identities and cultures by sending them to live and work among non-Native people. Tracing their journeys, Whalen shows how male students faced low pay and grueling conditions on industrial farms near the edge of the city, yet still made more money than they could near their reservations. Similarly, many young women serving as domestic workers in Los Angeles made the best of their situations by tapping into the city's Indigenous social networks and even enrolling in its public schools. As Whalen reveals, despite cruel working conditions and poor treatment, Native people used the outing program to their advantage whenever they could, forming urban Indigenous communities and sharing money and knowledge gained in the city with those back home.?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index
Notes English
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Subject Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.) -- History
SUBJECT Sherman Institute (Riverside, Calif.) fast
Subject Off-reservation boarding schools -- California -- Riverside -- History
Indian students -- California -- Riverside -- History -- 20th century
Indian students -- Employment -- California -- Los Angeles Region
Indian students -- California, Southern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Indians of North America -- Employment -- California -- Los Angeles Region -- History -- 20th century
Women household employees -- California -- Los Angeles Region -- History -- 20th century
Agricultural laborers -- California, Southern -- History -- 20th century
Indians of North America -- California, Southern -- Social conditions -- 20th century
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Agricultural laborers
Indian students
Indians of North America -- Employment
Indians of North America -- Social conditions
Off-reservation boarding schools
Women household employees
Indians of North America -- Education -- History.
Indians of North America -- Residential schools -- History.
Indians of North America -- Labour -- History.
SUBJECT Riverside (Calif.) -- History
Subject California -- Los Angeles Region
California -- Riverside
Southern California
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021692774
ISBN 9780295806662
0295806664
Other Titles American Indian labor and Sherman Institute's Outing Program, 1900-1945