American Indian Education: A HistoryIn this comprehensive history of American Indian education in the United States from colonial times to the present, historians and educators Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder explore the broad spectrum of Native experiences in missionary, government, and tribal boarding and day schools. This up-to-date survey is the first one-volume source for those interested in educational reform policies and missionary and government efforts to Christianize and “civilize” American Indian children. Drawing on firsthand accounts from teachers and students, American Indian Education considers and analyzes shifting educational policies and philosophies, paying special attention to the passage of the Native American Languages Act and current efforts to revitalize Native American cultures.
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... bureaucrats in Washing- ton , D.C. , most of whom never ventured west of the Mississippi River to see how Indians lived and the results of their policies . The U.S.government's goal of totally assimilating the first Amer- icans ...
... result that Indians often learned the whites ' worst habits . Lewis Meriam ( 1932 , 30 ) , who headed an extensive study of the Indian Bureau ( see chap . 8 ) was told repeatedly by missionaries that their " real difficulties " lay with ...
... result of their contact with frontier whites rather than with their own people is symptomatic of missionaries ' general inability to see traditional tribal practices as anything but evil . Harvard and Dartmouth were not the only ...
... result of free and easy mode of life , cannot conform to the intense struggle for life which our social conditions require . ( Quoted in Milloy 1999 , 36-37 ) Indians in Canada did not benefit from the loosening up of assim- ilationist ...
... result of the residential school system . " And in 1998 the Canadian minister of Indian affairs declared : One aspect of our relationship with Aboriginal people over this period that requires particular attention is the Residential ...
Contents
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Allotment and Dependency 18871924 | 81 |
Mission Schools | 112 |
Government Boarding Schools | 132 |
Students and Parents | 168 |
A New Deal 19241944 | 205 |
Termination and Relocation 19441969 | 232 |
SelfDetermination 19691989 | 251 |
Higher Education | 290 |
New Directions in Indian Education 19892003 | 308 |
Entering the TwentyFirst Century | 323 |
References | 331 |
Index | 357 |
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