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

Nieman Reports, December, 2006

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. 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 literally ripped from their tribal roots," an experience that for many "resulted in isolation, confusion, and intense psychological pain, as they were forced to reject their own culture and spirituality," said...