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Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. Despite the long reach of institutionalization for those forcibly held at the Asylum, the tenacity of relationships extended within and beyond institutional walls. In this accessible and innovative work, Susan Burch tells the story of the Indigenous people—families, communities, and nations, across generations to the present day—who have experienced the impact of this history. Drawing on oral history interviews, correspondence, material objects, and archival sources, Burch reframes the histories of institutionalized people and the places that held them. Committed expands the boundaries of Native American history, disability studies, and U.S. social and cultural history generally.
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Keywords
- 20th century social history
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Canton Asylum
- Canton, South Dakota
- carceral studies
- Cemeteries
- Cora Winona Faribault
- Critical disability studies
- cross-generational trauma
- Decolonization
- Disability: social aspects
- Elizabeth Faribault
- ethnic studies
- Eugenics
- Harry R. Hummer
- Hiawatha Asylum
- History
- history of medicine
- History of the Americas
- Humanities
- Incarceration
- Indigenous peoples
- J. Kay Davis
- Lizzie Red Owl
- mad in America
- Mad studies
- medical model of disability
- Menominee Nation
- Narcotic Farms
- Native American Indigenous Studies
- Native ancestors
- Native kinship
- Native self-determination
- Native storytelling
- political-relational theory of disability
- Prairie Band Potawatomi
- psychiatric institutionalization
- Regional & national history
- sanism
- Settler ableism
- Settler Colonialism
- Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
- slow violence
- Social groups
- Social issues & processes
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- South Dakota
- St. Elizabeths Hospital (DC)
- transinstitutionalization
- Western medicine
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