Review of Lessons from an Indian Day School: Negotiating Colonization in Northern New Mexico

Authors

Matthew L. M. Fletcher, University of Michigan Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

2013

Abstract

Sometimes a micro-study of a short period of time at an Indian reservation, focused entirely on two people, can be a powerful microcosm of many of the problems in Indian country throughout American history. Lessons from an Indian Day School is such a study, and it is an exceptional read. Adrea Lawrence selects the Santa Clara Pueblo for the period from 1902 to 1907 for her study; in that short period, the tribe engaged in disputes over membership, suffered a terrible outbreak of diphtheria, and experienced fundamental changes to their property rights and reservation status.

Comments

Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.

Recommended Citation

Fletcher, Matthew. Review of Lessons from an Indian Day School: Negotiating Colonization in Northern New Mexico, Pacific Historical Review 82, no. 1 (2013): 140-41. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)