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Author: Carla Joinson
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: Bison Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.776kg
ISBN: 9780803280984
ISBN 10: 080328098
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 01 June 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
""Anyone interested in ethnohistory, social history, and the evolution of public health and medicine will glean much value from this work.""—Ken Zontek, Annals of Wyoming “[Carla Joinson] exposes the notorious Canton Asylum with balance and compassion. Long overlooked, the story of this asylum has at last found a lucid, discerning, and worthy chronicler.”—Philip Burnham, author of Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn ""A valuable resource for a number of different fields of scholarship, as well as for the average reader looking to learn about this unique institution.""—John Truden, South Dakota History “Just when we thought we had heard the worst about our treatment of Native Americans, along comes Carla Joinson with Vanished in Hiawatha. The story is painful, but Joinson’s elegant narrative and prose get us through it. This powerful book is about Indians—and ourselves.”—Catherine Robbins, author of All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) “Carla Joinson’s fine history of a harsh institution offers compelling glimpses of those forced to live there and a detailed look at the people who made it hell.”—LLyn De Danaan, author of Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman’s Life on Oyster Bay
Grim Shadows depicts the awful outgrowths of misplaced policies, ignorant, even medieval medical practices, and staff negligence. Joinson s fine history of a harsh institution offers compelling glimpses of those forced to live there and a detailed look at the people who made it hell. LLyn De Danaan, author of Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman s Life on Oyster Bay --LLyn De Danaan (09/14/2015)
“[Carla Joinson] exposes the notorious Canton Asylum with balance and compassion. Long overlooked, the story of this asylum has at last found a lucid, discerning, and worthy chronicler.”—Philip Burnham, author of Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn “Just when we thought we had heard the worst about our treatment of Native Americans, along comes Carla Joinson with Vanished in Hiawatha. The story is painful, but Joinson’s elegant narrative and prose get us through it. This powerful book is about Indians—and ourselves.”—Catherine Robbins, author of All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) “Carla Joinson’s fine history of a harsh institution offers compelling glimpses of those forced to live there and a detailed look at the people who made it hell.”—LLyn De Danaan, author of Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman’s Life on Oyster Bay
Author Information
Carla Joinson is a freelance writer who lives near Johnson City, Tennessee. She is the author of A Diamond in the Dust and Civil War Doctor: The Story of Mary Walker.
