Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 powwow Perhaps more important

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variations of this Unktomi story have been told

and intellectual frameworks in their struggles toward liberation and self-determination

Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 powwow Perhaps more importantThe 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 childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official: "Kill the Indian and save the man." This fully revised edition of