Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions Burch Susan
Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions Burch Susan Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the…
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Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions Burch Susan
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. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story.
In this accessible and innovative work, Susan Burch tells the story of the Indigenous people-families, communities, and nations, across generations to the present day-who have experienced the impact of this Despite the long reach of institutionalization for those forcibly held at the Asylum, the tenacity of relationships extended within and beyond institutional walls.