Middle Five Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe

Name: Middle Five Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe
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ISBN: 9780803279018

ISBN-10: 0803279019

ISBN-13: 9780803279018

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Francis La Flesche, David A. Baerreis

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The Middle Five, first published in 1900, is an account of Francis La Flesche's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission school in northeastern Nebraska about the time of the Civil War. It is a simple, affecting tale of young Indian boys midway between two cultures, reluctant to abandon the ways of their fathers, and puzzled and uncomfortable in their new roles of "make-believe white men." The ambition of the Indian parents for their children, the struggle of the teachers to acquaint their charges with a new world of learning, and especially the problems met by both parents and teachers in controlling and directing schoolboy exuberance contribute to the authen-ticity of this portrait of…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 156
Size: 5.35" wide x 7.96" long x 0.38" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English