Carla Joinson is a freelance writer who lives near Johnson City, Tennessee. Carla has a interest in the history of mental illness and its treatment inspired her to continue research into this topic and author books such as "Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians" the harrowing tale of the mistreatment of Native American patients at a notorious insane asylum whose history helps us to understand the broader mistreatment of Native peoples under forced federal assimilation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.