The Dakota Sioux Experience at Flandreau and Pipestone Indian Schools

Landrum's work provides thorough institutional histories of the Flandreau and Pipestone boarding schools and explains how changing federal Indian policies impacted those who taught, administered, and attended them. She also includes a collection of personal reflections, some heartbreaking and some uplifting, by those who passed through those schools. -Tim Garrison, professor of history at Portland State University and coeditor of The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies -- Tim Garrison This study of the Flandreau and Pipestone Indian Schools is important because it covers the two schools in great depth while also linking various historical contexts and periods. This book will appeal to both scholars in the field and to descendants of the schools' students. I especially appreciate Landrum's inclusion of the specter of race science regarding student evaluations at the schools. She also has further clarified and added greater nuance to the discussion of the Puritan `praying towns' and provided a valuable discussion of the self-pedagogy of the Five Civilized Tribes. -Hayes P. Mauro, associate professor of art and design at CUNY's Queensborough Community College and author of The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School -- Hayes P. Mauro This book will appeal to scholars, historians, federal boarding school descendants, Dakota people, and all Native people. -Nancy F. Carlson, Nebraska History -- Nancy F. Carlson * Nebraska History *