ADREA LAWRENCE. Lessons from an Indian Day School: Negotiating Colonization in Northern New Mexico, 1902-1907.
2013; Oxford University Press; Volume: 118; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/ahr/118.1.189
ISSN1937-5239
Autores Tópico(s)Latin American and Latino Studies
ResumoIn this book, Adrea Lawrence offers a view of U.S. Indian Service attitudes toward Pueblo Indian people of the Rio Grande valley—occasionally interspersed with Tewa Indian perspectives—all within a backdrop setting during the final moments before New Mexico slipped out of its lengthy territorial apprenticeship into bona fide statehood (1912). Limiting her gaze to this epicenter of the New Mexico borderlands, Lawrence constructs a tale in miniature, one that might be construed as a microcosm for federal-Indian relations of the era but which, in reality, demonstrates the uniqueness of the peoples of the northern Rio Grande. Focusing primarily on the Pueblo of Santa Clara and the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA), Lawrence establishes strict parameters for her study. The main characters are few. The two figures that lie at the heart of the narrative epitomize the OIA's local voice in its turn-of-the-century guise. Clara D. True, Indian Service teacher at Santa Clara Day School, receives a sympathetic portrayal. Clinton J. Crandall, True's boss, who served simultaneously as superintendent of Santa Fe Indian School, emerges as a rigorous spokesperson for federal regulations and assimilation. The people of Santa Clara form the third dimension of Lawrence's study but they remain in the background. The local Hispanos/as come onstage as the fourth side of this relationship, but Lawrence introduces them largely as a foil for the Tewa people, in their role as seemingly undeterred competitors for Santa Clara's land and natural resources.
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