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The first narrative history revealing the entire story of the development, operation, and harmful legacy of the Native American boarding schools - and how our nation still has much to resolve before we can fully heal.. When Europeans came to the Americas centuries ago, too many of them brought racism along with them. Even presidents such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson each had different takes on how to solve the "Indian Problem" - none of them beneficial for the Natives. In the early 1800s, the federal government and various church denominations devised the "Indian Boarding Schools," in which Native children were forced to give up their Native languages, clothes, and spiritual beliefs for a life of cultural assimilation.
About the Author
Bill Vaughn is the author of Hawthorn, a political, cultural and natural history of the tree published by Yale University Press. His articles have appeared in Outside, The Men's Journal, Ski, Salon, Westways, AARP, New West, American Cowboy, Wooden Boat, Rocky Mountain Magazine, Aldus, Seven Days, numerous other publications, and in a dozen anthologies, including The Best American Magazine Writing 2001, Outside 25, and Dog Is My Co-Pilot, a New York Times best-seller. The subjects of his essays and reports have ranged from sports to the paper industry, fashion, Branson, and Provence to celebrities such as Jesse James. His essay about ice skating was nominated for a National Magazine Award. He wrote the libretto for a photography collection from Norton titled Hip Hop Hares. He edited and designed The Complete Fisherman's Catalog, a big-selling title for Lippincott. His essay about becoming a middle-aged Eagle Scout was optioned by Endeavor as the basis for a screenplay written for Adam Sandler, and again by New Line Cinema. He contributed an essay about cattle ranching to Working America, a coffee-table photography collection sponsored by Toyota. Following his attempt to wreck the filming of the first season of the CBS reality series Survivor, his online columns about the first and second seasons were widely read. He has designed more than four-hundred books for various clients. He is the author of First, A Little Chee-Chee, and a novel, Making Bones. Plus, he sang solo on National Public Radio.
