My review of Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press edited by Jacqueline Emery.

In an 1880 editorial, Carlisle Indian Industrial School student Samuel Townsend, a citizen of the Pawnee nation, confronted white Americans who denigrated the intelligence of Native children enrolled in federally-managed boarding schools in the United States. Writing in the School News student newspaper, Townsend declared, "Some white folks say that the Indians do not know anything and can't learn anything, but the Indians are learning something. ... Maybe those white folks don't know anything"…

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