Jenny M. Smith's Indian Student Placement Program oral histories, 1999.

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Jenny M. Smith's Indian Student Placement Program oral histories, 1999.

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This single box collection contains the typescripts and cassette recordings of six oral history interviews conducted in 1999 by Jenny M. Smith for her M.A. thesis "Beyond the Statistics: Indian Experiences in the Indian Student Placement Program". Those interviewed for Smith's thesis were all Native Americans who had been involved in the ISPP. Interview subjects were: Alvia J. Brown, Celina Jake, Edmond Jake, Durinda Tom, Orlando Tsosie, and one interviewee who wished to remain anonymous.

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Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library

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Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library

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Tom, Durinda

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Indian Student Placement Program

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Jake, Celina

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Smith, Jenny Miall

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In 1947 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began what became known as the Indian Student Placement Program (ISPP). Encouraged and funded by the leadership of the LDS church, the objective of this program was to assimilate local Native Americans into the Mormon culture. Assimilation was to be accomplished by having members of the LDS church offer to act as foster parents to Native American youths, thereby providing the opportunity for a better education, Mormon religious influence, a...

Jake, Edmond

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Brown, Alvia J.

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Tsosie, Orlando

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