{"product_id":"agents-of-survivance-indigenous-women-teachers-in-the-boarding-school-era-hardcover","title":"Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnne Ruggles Gere\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAgents of Survivance\u003c\/i\u003e Anne Ruggles Gere complicates and enriches established accounts of the Indian boarding school era and what preceded it by looking closely at the largely ignored Indigenous women teachers in these schools. Focusing on Sarah Winnemucca, S. Alice Callahan, Angel DeCora, and Ella Deloria, Gere shows how these and many other Indian women teachers subversively resisted assimilation with tribal presence, relationality, connection to land, rejection of victimhood, and maintenance of cultural traditions, art, and languages. Their vulnerable positions in schools directed by Euro-Americans necessitated that their contributions be subversive, nearly invisible. Despite this, they developed policies and practices that were passed to Indian students who in turn became teachers of the next generation of Indian students, and many of their innovations inform contemporary movements toward sovereignty for Indian education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndispensable for future research, \u003ci\u003eAgents of Survivance\u003c\/i\u003e includes two appendixes drawn from Bureau of Indian Affairs records documenting dozens of Native women teachers, as well as Native women who worked in boarding schools doing laundry, kitchen work, dormitory cleaning, and sewing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Ruggles Gere\u003c\/b\u003e is Gertrude Buck Collegiate Professor of Education Emerita and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English Emerita at the University of Michigan. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eIntimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRenovating Rhetoric in Christian Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e, among other books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 290\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52057195446573,"sku":"9781496244987","price":102.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/agents-of-survivance-indigenous-women-teachers-in-the-boarding-school-era-hardcover-1671132.webp?v=1780168806","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/agents-of-survivance-indigenous-women-teachers-in-the-boarding-school-era-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}