Education at the Edge of Empire: Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico’s Indian Boarding Schools. By John R. Gram.

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Education at the Edge of Empire: Negotiating Pueblo Identity in New Mexico’s Indian Boarding Schools . Indigenous Confluences Series. By John R. Gram. Foreword by Theodore Jojola. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. xviii + 242 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00.) This is not your typical book about Indian schools. John R. Gram uses newly available primary source materials and the very best of the existing literature on American Indian schools to show the importance of thinking—at least in New Mexico—about how these schools and their students exist, persist, and thrive on the edge of the American empire. This work situates the Indian schools in Albuquerque (AIS) and Santa Fe (SFIS) in the historical context of changes in the region. Gram’s study looks at … Brian.collier{at}nd.edu