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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and what happened when, at fifteen, her parents were forced back to Mexico in this galvanizing yet tender memoir. Born to Mexican immigrants south of the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth had the world at her fingertips as she entered her freshman year of high school as the number one student. But suddenly, Elizabeth's own country took away the...
86) Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 341 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores why many Native youth in the Indian Student Placement Program adopted a new notion of identity. From 1947 to 2000, some 50,000 Native American children left the reservations to live with Mormon foster families. The access to educational opportunities and cross cultural experiences appealed to many Navajo and other Native American families in the post-war years. Some dropped out of the Indian Student Placement Program (ISPP) program, but for...
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