{"product_id":"objects-of-survivance-a-material-history-of-the-american-indian-school-experience-9781607329923","title":"Objects of Survivance: A Material History of the American Indian School Experience","description":"Between 1893 and 1903, Jesse H. Bratley worked in Indian schools across five reservations in the American West. As a teacher Bratley was charged with forcibly assimilating Native Americans through education. Although tasked with eradicating their culture, Bratley became entranced by it--collecting artifacts and taking glass plate photographs to document the Native America he encountered. Today, the Denver Museum of Nature \u0026amp; Science's Jesse H. Bratley Collection consists of nearly 500 photographs and 1,000 pottery and basketry pieces, beadwork, weapons, toys, musical instruments, and other objects traced to the S'Klallam, Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Havasupai, Hopi, and Seminole peoples. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This visual and material archive serves as a lens through which to view a key moment in US history--when Native Americans were sequestered onto reservation lands, forced into unfamiliar labor economies, and attacked for their religious practices. Education, the government hoped, would be the final tool to permanently transform Indigenous bodies through moral instruction in Western dress, foodways, and living habits. Yet Lindsay Montgomery and Chip Colwell posit that Bratley's collection constitutes \"objects of survivance\"--things and images that testify not to destruction and loss but to resistance and survival. Interwoven with documents and interviews, \u003ci\u003eObjects of Survivance\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates how the US government sought to control Native Americans and how Indigenous peoples endured in the face of such oppression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rejecting the narrative that such objects preserve dying Native cultures, \u003ci\u003eObjects of Survivance\u003c\/i\u003e reframes the Bratley Collection, showing how tribal members have reconnected to these items, embracing them as part of their past and reclaiming them as part of their contemporary identities. This unique visual and material record of the early American Indian school experience and story of tribal perseverance will be of value to anyone interested in US history, Native American studies, and social justice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Co-published with the Denver Museum of Nature \u0026amp; Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781607329923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.50h x 8.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lindsay M. Montgomery, Chip Colwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43705108988085,"sku":"9781607329923","price":33.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_002844bb-aae0-4c3d-adb4-38a208483bfe.jpg?v=1709654704","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/objects-of-survivance-a-material-history-of-the-american-indian-school-experience-9781607329923","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}