Lincoln (Neb.) - Nov. 3, 1998 - The Genoa Industrial Indian School, which was in operation for 50 years in Genoa, is the topic for the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Amy M. Goodburn, assistant professor of English at the university, will present "Literacy Practices at the Genoa Industrial Indian School (1884-1934)," from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Nov. 11 in the Great Plains Art Collection Gallery in 215 Love Library, 13th and R streets. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception in the gallery are free and open to the public.
Goodburn will present the history of the federal off-
reservation boarding school, then will focus on its literacy
curriculum as a site of contested values and the ways that
American Indian students adopted, resisted and remade these
values through their literacy practices. She will discuss
literary texts that students read, school essays that they wrote
and extracurricular activities such as pen pal exchanges and
literary societies in which they participated.
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