| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Marilyn Irvin Holt. Indian Orphanages. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2001. Pp. x, 326. $34.95.

Orphanages for Indian children were never very prevalent. Nevertheless, between the 1850s and the 1970s a number of such institutions existed. Although they possessed some remarkable educational similarities to Indian boarding schools, orphanages were different because, until the twentieth century, they tended to be less affected by the federal assimilation program. Marilyn Irvin Holt has molded the subject of orphan asylums for Native American children into a well-written, interesting, and important contribution to the fields of Indian history and Indian education. She also fits her subject into the general trends in national social welfare that changed so dramatically during the orphanage era. Native experiences paralleled in many ways the development of orphan asylums nationally. As the author of The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (1991), Holt brings an extensive prior knowledge to her subject. . . .

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