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Habeas Corpus and American Indian Boarding Schools: Indigenous Self-Determination in Body and Mind, 1880–1900.

This article examines the history of Native people's use of habeas corpus to resist family separation employed in the United States' system of Indian boarding schools. It highlights three cases brought by Native petitioners from Alaska, New Mexico, and Iowa between 1885 and 1900. These cases show ho...

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Published in:Western Historical Quarterly Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 93 - 116
Main Author: Villeneuve, Matthew
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Summer2025
Subjects:
Young adults
Indigenous peoples
Intervention (Federal government)
History of education
Boarding schools
Petitions
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