Review: Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890–2020, by Samantha M. Williams

Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890–2020, by Samantha M. Williams Samantha M. Williams. Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890–2020. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 334 pp. Photographs and tables. Hardcover $60. José F. Gutiérrez José F. Gutiérrez JOSÉ F. GUTIÉRREZ is an assistant professor at the University of Utah in the Department of Education, Culture & Society. He earned his PhD in education at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2015. His areas of research and teaching include pedagogical theory, mathematics education, and qualitative research methodology. He is currently the principal investigator on a Spencer Foundation–funded project, “Signs of Power and Dominance: The Role of Mathematics Curricula in U.S. Assimilationist Policies and Practices in Indian Boarding Schools, 1879–1932.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (4): 124–126. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.124 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation José F. Gutiérrez; Review: Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890–2020, by Samantha M. Williams. California History 1 November 2023; 100 (4): 124–126. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.4.124 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search The United States established and operated dozens of off-reservation Indian boarding schools (IBS) from the late 1800s through the twenty-first century. Previous scholarship—including They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (1994) by K. Tsianina Lomawaima and Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 (1995) by David Wallace Adams—documented how IBS policies and practices aimed to forcibly assimilate Native American children into white American society and make them into subservient workers. In Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890–2020, Samantha M. Williams makes a compelling contribution to historical scholarship on the IBS system. Superbly researched and beautifully written, the book presents an in-depth case study of the Stewart Indian School, an off-reservation boarding school located in Carson City, Nevada, that operated from 1890 to 1980. The objectives of the book, Williams explains, are to “examine this complicated... You do not currently have access to this content.