UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS new books for spring & summer 2020 Recent Awards Nicole Etcheson is the winner of the No Place Like Home: Lessons in Frederick Jackson Turner Award for Lifetime Activism from LGBT Kansas by Contributions to Midwestern History. C.J. Janovy is a winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains A Generation at War: The Distinguished Book Prize. Civil War Era in a Northern 308 pages Community Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2528-4, $29.95 384 pages Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2834-6, $19.95 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-1797-5, $39.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2529-1, $19.95 Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era 384 pages Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-1492-9, $19.95 Child Labor in America: The Marine, Public Servant, Kansan: Epic Legal Struggle to Protect The Life of Ernest Garcia by Children by John A. Fliter is Dennis Raphael Garcia was a finalist for the David J. awarded first place in the Langum, Sr., Prize in American biography category for the Legal History. International Latino Book 328 pages Awards. Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2630-4, $50.00 222 pages Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2631-1, $24.95 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2667-0, $27.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2632-8, $24.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2668-7, $27.95 Children of the Silent Majority: Hopi Runners: Crossing the Young Voters and the Rise of the Terrain between Indian and Republican Party, 1968–1980 by American by Matthew Seth Blumenthal is the winner Sakiestewa Gilbert is the of the James P. Hanlan Book winner of the 2019 David J. Award from the New England Weber-Clements Prize from the Historical Association. Western History Association. 376 pages 296 pages Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2701-1, $39.95 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2698-4, $27.95 Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2916-9, $29.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2700-4, $27.95 Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2702-8, $29.95 Cover art: Sioux boys in their Carlisle uniforms, ca. 1880, National Archives. See Education for Extinction, p. 2. University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES | SPORTS NEW BOOKS Native Hoops The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895–1970 Wade Davies prominent Navajo educator once “Beautifully written and told historian Peter Iverson that deeply researched, Native A“the five major sports on the Hoops shines a bright light Navajo Nation are basketball, basketball, on the Native American basketball, basketball, and rodeo.” The passion for basketball, Native American passion for basketball capturing not only the extends far beyond the Navajo, whether accomplishments of genera- on reservations or in cities, among the tions of players on the court young and the old. Why basketball—a relatively new sport—should hold such a but also the special meanings place in Native culture is the question that ‘hoop dreams’ held for Wade Davies takes up in Native Hoops. reservation communities Indian basketball was born of hard across time and space.” times and hard places, its evolution DAVID WALLACE ADAMS, AUTHOR OF traceable back to the boarding schools— EDUCATION FOR EXTINCTION: AMERICAN or “Indian schools”—of the early INDIANS AND THE BOARDING SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, 1875–1928 AND twentieth century. Davies describes the THREE ROADS TO MAGDALENA: ways in which the sport, plied as a tool of COMING OF AGE IN A SOUTHWEST social control and cultural integration, BORDERLAND, 1890–1990 was adopted and transformed by Native students for their own purposes, redemptive power of sport and the ultimately becoming the “Rez ball” that transcendent spirit of Native culture. embodies Native American experience, identity, and community. Native Hoops Wade Davies is professor of Native travels the continent, from Alaska to American studies at the University of North Carolina, tying the rise of basket- Montana, Missoula. His books include ball—and Native sports history—to Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the sweeping educational, economic, social, Twentieth Century; “We Are Still Here”: and demographic trends through the American Indians since 1890, with Peter course of the twentieth century. Along the Iverson; and American Indian Sovereignty way, the book highlights the toils and and Law: An Annotated Bibliography, with triumphs of well-known athletes, like Richmond L. Clow. Jim Thorpe and the 1904 Fort Shaw girls’ team, even as it brings to light the remarkable accomplishments of those whom history has, until now, left behind. FEBRUARY The first comprehensive history of 400 pages, 35 photographs, 6 x 9 American Indian basketball, Native Hoops Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2908-4, $50.00(s) tells a story of hope, achievement, and Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2909-1, $24.95(t) celebration—a story that reveals the Ebook ISBN 978-0-7006-2910-7, $24.95 www.kansaspress.ku.edu Spring & Summer 2020 1 NEW BOOKS NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES | EDUCATION HISTORY Education for Extinction American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928 Second Edition, Revised and Expanded David Wallace Adams 25th Anniversary Edition he last “Indian War” was fought against Native American children in “What a triumph! Adams Tthe dormitories and classrooms of has masterfully reworked, government boarding schools. Only by reinterpreted, and reframed removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, an enlarged version of his policymakers reasoned, could white classic book by drawing on “civilization” take root while childhood new research by Indian and memories of “savagism” gradually faded non-Indian scholars over the to the point of extinction. In the words of past twenty-five years. one official: “Kill the Indian in him and Education for Extinction is a save the man.” foundational study for anyone This fully revised edition of Education interested in boarding for Extinction offers the only comprehen- schools, Indian education, sive account of this dispiriting effort, and and American history.” it incorporates the last twenty-five years who seemingly cooperated with the of scholarship. Much more than a study system were more than passive players in CLIFFORD E. TRAFZER, DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND RUPERT of federal Indian policy, this book vividly this drama, that the response of accom- COSTO CHAIR IN AMERICAN INDIAN details the day-to-day experiences of modation was not synonymous with AFFAIRS, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Indian youth living in a “total institution” cultural surrender. This is especially RIVERSIDE designed to reconstruct them both apparent in his analysis of students who psychologically and culturally. The assault returned to the reservation and worked “A story worth reading and on identity came in many forms: shearing for tribal survival. remembering, one that off of braids, assignment of new names, Based upon extensive use of govern- reveals the use of education uniformed drill routines, humiliating ment archives, Indian and teacher as a weapon of war and a punishments, relentless attacks on Native autobiographies, and school newspapers, method of domination. A religious beliefs, patriotic indoctrinations, Adams’s moving account is essential strong lesson in the potential suppression of tribal languages, Victorian reading for scholars and general readers for education to become gender rituals, football contests, and alike interested in Western history, Native American studies, American race part of a political and industrial training. Especially poignant is Adams’s relations, education history, and multicul- cultural arsenal.” description of the ways in which students turalism. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION resisted or accommodated themselves to forced assimilation. Many converted to David Wallace Adams is professor varying degrees, but others plotted emeritus at Cleveland State University JUNE escapes, committed arson, and devised and the author of Three Roads to Magdalena: 472 pages, 32 photographs, 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 978-0-7006-2959-6, $50.00(s) ingenious strategies of passive resistance. Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, Paper ISBN 978-0-7006-2960-2, $19.95(s) Adams also argues that many of those 1890–1990, also from Kansas. 2 University Press of Kansas www.kansaspress.ku.edu ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY | US HISTORY NEW BOOKS The Hanford Plaintiffs Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice Trisha T. Pritikin With an Introduction by Karen Dorn Steele or more than four decades beginning The Hanford Plaintiffs draws a damning “The Hanford Plaintiffs is an in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons picture of the failure of the US Congress extraordinary and unique Ffacility in southeastern Washington and the judiciary to defend the American exposé of the human results State secretly blanketed much of the public and to adequately redress a of deliberate releases of Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing catastrophic wrong. Documenting the huge quantities of radioactive legal, medical, and human cost of one radiation, the by-product of plutonium isotopes from the Hanford production. For those who lived in the community’s struggle for justice, this reactors and nuclear complex vicinity, many of them families of Hanford book conveys in clear and urgent terms over many years of operation.” workers, the consequences soon became the damage done to ordinary Americans apparent as rates of illness and death in the name of business, progress, and HELEN CALDICOTT, MD steadily climbed—despite repeated patriotism. assurances from the Atomic Energy “Timely and compelling, with Commission that the facility posed no Trisha T. Pritikin is a lawyer and president the experiences and voices threat. Trisha T. Pritikin, who has battled of the board of directors of the Conse- of impacted people at its a lifetime of debilitating illness to become quences of Radiation Exposure (CORE) core, The Hanford Plaintiffs a lawyer and advocate for her fellow Museum and Archives, a nonprofit is one of the most important “downwinders,” tells the devastating story organization whose mission is to increase works on Hanford to date.