Kuwaiti and Bahraini merchants also maintained long and friendly relationships with India; many had offices in Bombay since the early 1900s. Members of the older generation — the elites in particular — of the Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia studied in Indian schools during the time of the ...
By the early 1900s, over a million crates of pineapples were shipped each year on the Florida East Coast Railway and the area was named the Pineapple Capital of the World. In 1901, at the peak of this pineapple craze, my great-grandfather, Benjamin Sooy Summerlin, was... Hurricane ...
By the early 1900s, over a million crates of pineapples were shipped each year on the Florida East Coast Railway and the area was named the Pineapple Capital of the World. In 1901, at the peak of this pineapple craze, my great-grandfather, Benjamin Sooy Summerlin, was... Hurricane ...
Carlisle Indian School is being criticized relentlessly these days and critics often conflate it with other schools, even some in Canada. Carlisle was unique; it reflected founder Richard Henry Pratt’s philosophy and prepared students to farm their allotments on the reservation, if staying on the...
Anglo-Indian, in India, a citizen of mixed Indian and, through the paternal line, European ancestry. From roughly the 18th to the early 20th century, the term referred specifically to British people working in India. The meaning of the term Anglo-Indian has to some degree been in a state...
Zitkala-Sa struggled with the conflicting influences of American-Indian and white culture throughout her life. Raised on a Sioux reservation, she attended boarding schools that enforced assimilation and was witness to major events in white-Indian relations in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Drawing...
schools in Brown v Board of Education of Topeka.87 This is despite the fact that the Fourteenth Amendment was understood to support racial equality and not desegregation; seen in the light of the separate but equal doctrine of Plessy v Ferguson,88 segregation in schools was not perceived as ...
This information relates to schools run by this school's state operating agency. Many districts contain only one school. School information is provided by the government. Total Schools (all grades) 6 Total Students (all grades) 3,007 Elementary Schoolers Proficient in Reading (district average) ...
In the “Indian Boarding Schools”, Erdrich vividly describes her experience with having to go to Indian Boarding Schools, where she was forced to let go of her homeland and culture. She describes how when they got caught running away, they would be taken back in the sheriff’s car on “...
schools within America were reported to be underweight. The director dismissed reports of malnutrition as exaggerations, claiming in the face of all evidence that “ninety-nine percent of Indian children at these schools are too fat.” The food was often rotten and spoiled. Accounts of bug-...