Introduction: Eastern reforms encounter southwestern communities
The economics of education: The true cost of keeping the doors open
The consequences of competition: The fight to control the flow of Pueblo students
Geographies of imagination: Competing understandings of people and place in the Southwest
Everyday encounters: Daily life at the Albuquerque and Santa Fe Indian Schools
The integration of worlds: what students and their communities made of the boarding school experience
Conclusion: the successful legacy of assimilation's failure
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