Shillinger (racial and ethnic studies, U. of Wisconsin-La Crosse) studies the US Indian Office's assimilation policy in the late 19th and early 20th century that sent young Native Americans to Catholic boarding schools through the history of one particular school, Saint Joseph's Indian Industrial School on the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin. The school existed from 1883 to 1952 and experienced turns of quiet acceptance, passive and active resistance, and reform that reflected tribal and national relations throughout those years. The author frames her study with oral accounts from students, tribal members, teachers, and other officials about the experience at St. Joseph's and delves into the issues of allocation, assimilation through Catholicism, and FDR's Indian New Deal, among others. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)