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PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press

ISBN-10080328098X

ISBN-139780803280984

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Book TitleVanished in Hiawatha : the Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians

Number of Pages424 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEthnic Studies / Native American Studies, Psychiatry / General, History, Customs & Traditions, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Native American

Publication Year2016

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History, Medical

AuthorCarla Joinson

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight27.4 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.5 in

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LCCN2015-033012

Reviews"Just when we thought we had heard the worst about our treatment of Native Americans, along comes Carla Joinson with Vanished in Hiawatha . The story is painful, but Joinson's elegant narrative and prose get us through it. This powerful book is about Indians--and ourselves."--Catherine Robbins, author of All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos), "[Carla Joinson] exposes the notorious Canton Asylum with balance and compassion. Long overlooked, the story of this asylum has at last found a lucid, discerning, and worthy chronicler."--Philip Burnham, author of Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn, "Anyone interested in ethnohistory, social history, and the evolution of public health and medicine will glean much value from this work."--Ken Zontek, Annals of Wyoming, "Just when we thought we had heard the worst about our treatment of Native Americans, along comes Carla Joinson with Grim Shadows . The story is painful, but Joinson's elegant narrative and prose get us through it. This powerful book is about Indians--and ourselves."--Catherine Robbins, author of All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) , "Carla Joinson's fine history of a harsh institution offers compelling glimpses of those forced to live there and a detailed look at the people who made it hell."--LLyn De Danaan, author of Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman's Life on Oyster Bay

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Where Will All the Insane Indians Go? 2. Life in an Asylum 3. The Bad Start Begins 4. Helpless 5. A Superintendent in Trouble 6. Which Way to Canton? 7. The Reign of Harry Reid Hummer Begins 8. Reforms and Canton Asylum 9. Let the Investigations Begin 10. Life among the Indians 11. Another Sort of Prison 12. The World Outside 13. Hummer Can't Keep Up 14. Ripples in the Waters 15. The Winds of Change 16. The Gale Blows Epilogue Afterthoughts Acknowledgments Appendix A: Patients Treated at Canton Asylum Appendix B: Patients Interred in Canton Asylum Cemetery Appendix C: Patients Transferred to St. Elizabeths Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisBegun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often requiring only the signature of a reservation agent. Only nine Native patients in the asylum's history were committed by court order. Without interpreters, mental evaluations, or therapeutic programs, few patients recovered. But who cared about Indians and what went on in South Dakota? After three decades of complacency, both the superintendent and the city of Canton were surprised to discover that someone did care and that a bitter fight to shut the asylum down was about to begin. In this disturbing tale, Carla Joinson unravels the question of why this institution persisted for so many years. She also investigates the people who allowed Canton Asylum's mismanagement to reach such staggering proportions and asks why its administrators and staff were so indifferent to the misery experienced by patients. Vanished in Hiawatha is the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of Native American patients at a notorious insane asylum whose history helps us to understand the broader mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries., Vanished in Hiawatha is a harrowing look into the mistreatment of Native Americans at the Canton (South Dakota) Asylum for Insane Indians from 1902 to 1934.

LC Classification NumberRC445.S8J65 2016