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Education for extinction American Indians and the boarding school experience, 1875-1928 /

The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while ch...

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Main Author: Adams, David Wallace.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1995]
Physical Description: xi, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Indian youth -- Education -- United States.
Indian youth -- Government policy -- United States.
Indian youth -- Cultural assimilation -- United States.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- United States -- History.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Biography.
Education and state -- United States -- History.
Indians of North America -- Education -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Indians of North America -- Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Private schools -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Private schools -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social policy -- United States.
United States -- Social policy.
United States -- Race relations.
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