Tim Giago.(--1991--)(Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools)(Brief article)(Book review)

Nieman Reports, December, 2006

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Tim Giago has published the book "Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools" (Clear Light Book Publishing, August 2006. For copies e-mail harmon@ clearlightbooks.com.) Weaving together memoir, commentary, history and poetry, Giago's book details the extreme policies in mission schools that denied generations of Indian children their native languages and traditions.

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He drew off his own childhood experience at a mission school in writing this book. Giago's story "becomes a metaphor for the experience of many Indian children, who were ...

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Tim Giago.(--1991--)(Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools)(Brief article)(Book review)

Nieman Reports, December, 2006

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