"This is a highly valuable book for those who are interested in boarding schools, labor, allotment, federal policy, Indigenous agency, and family history."—Savannah Waters, South Dakota History
“Recovering the Native American voices in this book is an important undertaking to understanding Native American intellectualism and activism in the long history between the nineteenth century and today. . . . Boarding School Voices is written in such a readable way that any [person] simply curious about Native American history and literary production may be interested in reading it.”—Lionel Larré, editor of Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition
“The letters and other student-authored texts this book makes accessible are an untapped resource for scholars and students working to challenge the restrictive assimilationist-resistance binary that has dominated narratives of the boarding school experience.”—Jacqueline Emery, editor of Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press