| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.2

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Book Review

Empty Beds: Indian Student Health at Sherman Institute, 1902–1922. By Jean A. Kellar. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2002. xviii + 272 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $24.95, paper.)

Historical researcher Kellar is also a board member of the Sherman Indian Museum, located on the campus of Sherman Indian High School, Riverside, California. Established in 1901 as Sherman Institute, this is one of the handful of remaining federal off-reservation boarding schools for American Indians. Kellar set out to document student morbidity and mortality at Sherman in the early twentieth century, assuming she would find abundant scholarship—regarding Sherman, other boarding schools, student health and illness, and federal health policies and practices—to support her perception that boarding schools were "death factories for Indian children" (p. 1). What she discovered overturned all of her assumptions.

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