Profit and Loss
‘Indian’ Art at Sherman Institute, a Native American Off-Reservation Boarding School
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21408043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amanda K Wixon (Department of History , University of California , Riverside, 900 University Ave., HMNSS 1212 , Riverside, CA , 92521 , USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-190 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0044-2305 • E-ISSN: 2196-4726 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/zaa-2020-0018 |
| OpenAlex | W3034446000 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
In the early twentieth century, the US’s federal policies regarding the production of Native American art in off-reservation Indian boarding schools shifted from suppression to active encouragement. Seen as a path to economic stability, school administrators pushed their students to capitalize on the artistic traditions of Native cultures, without acknowledging or valuing these traditions as part of an extensive body of Indigenous knowledge. Although this push contributed to the retention of some cultural practices, administrators, teachers, and other members of the local community often exploited the students’ talents to make a profit. At Sherman Institute (now Sherman Indian High School) in Riverside, California, Native students of today are free to creatively express their own cultures in ways that strengthen their communities and promote tribal sovereignty. In this article, I will argue that the art program at Sherman Institute served to extinguish Indigenous knowledge and expertise as expressed through culturally specific weaving practices
Economics · Indian country · Indigenous · Native american · Native American studies · Political science · Politics · Profit (economics) · Public relations · Reservation · Reservation system · Sociology · Sovereignty · Traditional knowledge · Weaving · Anthropology · Art Education and Development · Engineering · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |