Committed : Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions /

"In 1898, Congress passed a bill creating the only 'institution for insane Indians' in the country. The Canton Indian Insane Asylum in South Dakota (sometimes called the Hiawatha Insane Asylum) opened for the reception of patients in 1903. Not long after it opened, a 1927 investigation conducted by...

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Main Author:	Burch, Susan (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Canton Asylum for Insane Indians Canton Asylum for Insane Indians > History. Inmates of institutions Indians, Treatment of Indians of North America > Government relations Indians of North America Indians of North America > Government relations > 1869-1934. Inmates of institutions > United States > Biography. Indians of North America > United States > Biography. Indians, Treatment of > North America. United States North America History Biographies Electronic books.
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