Download or read book Non reservation Indian Boarding Schools 1879 1969 written by Carole Ann Jaworski and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines two major issues: (1) to what extent have the conditions at non-reservation Indian boarding schools, as described by the Meriam Report of 1928, been in evidence from the beginning?; and (2) to what extent have these conditions improved since 1928? The conditions examined are: (1) General Conditions of the Schools; (2) Health; and (3) Curriculum and Personnel. Patterns became evident that would not necessarily have been observed by the study of one school, or one time frame, alone. In addition, the nonreservation school system itself was seen to be a part of the larger pattern of federal Indian policy that has sought, since 1870, to assimilate the American Indian. The study maintains that, with the exception of deaths, sickness, student labor, and militarism, the conditions at the non-reservation schools remained in 1928 and in 1969 largely the same as they were in the beginning. Among the conditions which were found to be in existence for the 90 year period covered by this study were: (1) the goal of the schools; (2) the similarity between the schools and penal institutions; (3) corporal punishment; (4) dilapidated physical plants; (5) over-crowded dormitories; (6) presence of young children; (7) deficient diet; (8) inadequate budget; (9) inadequate personnel; and (10) increasing attendance. The study concludes that the education of Indian children in the government's non-reservation Indian boarding schools has been in stark contrast to the traditional pattern of American education. Not only have these schools largely ignored the needs, values, and culture of the students whom they are supposed to serve, they have not even compared favorably with white schools whose values and culture they have been meant to impose.
Download or read book The Federal Indian Boarding School written by David Wallace Adams and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Away from Home written by Heard Museum and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws from more than a century of archaeological research and new discoveries from recent excavations to present a thorough examination of Santa Fe's pre-Hispanic history.
Download or read book American Indian Education written by Jon Reyhner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.
Download or read book The Thomas Indian School and the Irredeemable Children of New York written by Keith R. Burich and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Thomas Indian School has been overlooked by history and historians even though it predated, lasted longer, and affected a larger number of Indian children than most of the more well-known federal boarding schools. Founded by the Presbyterian missionaries on the Cattaraugus Seneca Reservation in western New York, the Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children, as it was formally named, shared many of the characteristics of the government-operated Indian schools. However, its students were driven to its doors not by Indian agents, but by desperation. Forcibly removed from their land, Iroquois families suffered from poverty, disease, and disruptions in their traditional ways of life, leaving behind many abandoned children. The story of the Thomas Indian School is the story of the Iroquois people and the suffering and despair of the children who found themselves trapped in an institution from which there was little chance for escape. Although the school began as a refuge for children, it also served as a mechanism for "civilizing" and converting native children to Christianity. As the school’s population swelled and financial support dried up, the founders were forced to turn the school over to the state of New York. Under the State Board of Charities, children were subjected to prejudice, poor treatment, and long-term institutionalization, resulting in alienation from their families and cultures. In this harrowing yet essential book, Burich offers new and important insights into the role and nature of boarding schools and their destructive effect on generations of indigenous populations.
Download or read book Children of the Indian Boarding Schools written by Holly Littlefield and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the experiences of the Native American children who were sent away from home, sometimes unwillingly, to government schools to learn English, Christianity, and white ways of living and working, and describes their later lives.
Download or read book Federal Off reservation Boarding Schools for Indians 1879 1900 written by Jeffrey Louis Hamley and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telling Stories Out of School written by Genevieve Bell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation remembers the Carlisle Indian Industrial School--the flagship of the American Assimilation era's education program. From 1879 to 1918, the United States government operated the Carlisle Indian Industrial School at the military barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It was the first government-funded, co-educational, secular, non-reservation Indian School to be established, and its design became the template for at least twenty-five additional non-reservation boarding schools during the Assimilation era, 1880-1924. This dissertation revisits the Carlisle Indian Industrial School with three interrelated goals: (i) to understand how the school functioned as a site at which State policies were articulated and employed; (ii) to examine the ways in which those State policies shaped student experiences of school; and (iii) to recall the impact that Carlisle had upon individual student lives after school. Some 8,500 students from at least seventy-five Native American Nations spent time at Carlisle, learning basic academic skills as well as receiving vocational training. These students were not only learning how to read, write and have a trade, they were also learning how to be Indian. That these lessons were not always voluntary, that their reception was uneven, and that their content shifted over time in no way diminishes their impact. It is these lessons about identity that this dissertation explores.
Download or read book Boarding School Seasons written by Brenda J. Child and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the experiences of children at three off-reservation Indian boarding schools in the early years of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Away from Home written by Margaret Archuleta and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education for Extinction written by David Wallace Adams and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official: "Kill the Indian and save the man." Education for Extinction offers the first comprehensive account of this dispiriting effort. Much more than a study of federal Indian policy, this book vividly details the day-to-day experiences of Indian youth living in a "total institution" designed to reconstruct them both psychologically and culturally. The assault on identity came in many forms: the shearing off of braids, the assignment of new names, uniformed drill routines, humiliating punishments, relentless attacks on native religious beliefs, patriotic indoctrinations, suppression of tribal languages, Victorian gender rituals, football contests, and industrial training. Especially poignant is Adams's description of the ways in which students resisted or accommodated themselves to forced assimilation. Many converted to varying degrees, but others plotted escapes, committed arson, and devised ingenious strategies of passive resistance. Adams also argues that many of those who seemingly cooperated with the system were more than passive players in this drama, that the response of accommodation was not synonymous with cultural surrender. This is especially apparent in his analysis of students who returned to the reservation. He reveals the various ways in which graduates struggled to make sense of their lives and selectively drew upon their school experience in negotiating personal and tribal survival in a world increasingly dominated by white men. The discussion comes full circle when Adams reviews the government's gradual retreat from the assimilationist vision. Partly because of persistent student resistance, but also partly because of a complex and sometimes contradictory set of progressive, humanitarian, and racist motivations, policymakers did eventually come to view boarding schools less enthusiastically. Based upon extensive use of government archives, Indian and teacher autobiographies, and school newspapers, Adams's moving account is essential reading for scholars and general readers alike interested in Western history, Native American studies, American race relations, education history, and multiculturalism.
Download or read book Pipestone written by Adam Fortunate Eagle and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned activist recalls his childhood years in an Indian boarding school Best known as a leader of the Indian takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, Adam Fortunate Eagle now offers an unforgettable memoir of his years as a young student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota. In this rare firsthand account, Fortunate Eagle lives up to his reputation as a “contrary warrior” by disproving the popular view of Indian boarding schools as bleak and prisonlike. Fortunate Eagle attended Pipestone between 1935 and 1945, just as Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier’s pluralist vision was reshaping the federal boarding school system to promote greater respect for Native cultures and traditions. But this book is hardly a dry history of the late boarding school era. Telling this story in the voice of his younger self, the author takes us on a delightful journey into his childhood and the inner world of the boarding school. Along the way, he shares anecdotes of dormitory culture, student pranks, and warrior games. Although Fortunate Eagle recognizes Pipestone’s shortcomings, he describes his time there as nothing less than “a little bit of heaven.” Were all Indian boarding schools the dispiriting places that history has suggested? This book allows readers to decide for themselves.
Download or read book The Indian History of an American Institution written by Colin G. Calloway and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the complex relationship between a school and a people
Download or read book Native American Boarding Schools written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Bacone College, Cadle Mission, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Chemawa Indian School, Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, Dwight Presbyterian Mission, Intermountain Indian School, Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School, Our Spirits Don't Speak English, Phoenix Indian School, Red Cloud High School (South Dakota), Red Cloud Indian School, Santa Fe Indian School, Sequoyah High School (Tahlequah, Oklahoma), Sherman Indian High School, St. Joseph Indian Normal School, Wheelock Academy. Excerpt: Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918) was an Indian boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1879 by Captain Richard Henry Pratt, the school was the first off-reservation boarding school, and it became a model for Indian boarding schools in other locations. It was one of a series of 19th-century efforts by the United States government to assimilate over 1000 Native American children from 39 tribes into the majority culture. The goal of total assimilation can be summed up in the school's slogan: "To civilize the Indian, get him into civilization. To keep him civilized, let him stay." The late 19th century was also a period of continued expansion of public education across the country, with the Reconstruction era legislatures having created public school systems in the South for the first time, and new northern towns' founding schools to keep up with the settlement of the Midwest and West, as well as expanding immigrant populations in industrial cities. In the early years of the 20th century, Coach Pop Warner led a highly successful football team and athletic program at the Carlisle School, and went on to create other successful collegiate programs. He coached the exceptional athlete Jim Thorpe and his teammates, bringing national recognition to the small school. In 1912 Carlisle won the national...
Download or read book Report on the Indian Schools of Manitoba and the North West Territories written by Peter Henderson Bryce and published by Government Printing Bureau. This book was released on 1907 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rapid City Indian School 1898 1933 written by Scott Riney and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rapid City Indian School was one of twenty-eight off-reservation boarding schools built and operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to prepare American Indian children for assimilation into white society. From 1898 to 1933 the "School of the Hills" housed Northern Plains Indian children--including Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, Shoshone, Arapaho, Crow, and Flathead--from elementary through middle grades. Scott Riney uses letters, archival materials, and oral histories to provide a candid view of daily life at the school as seen by students, parents, and school employees. The Rapid City Indian School, 1898-1933 offers a new perspective on the complexities of American Indian interactions with a BIA boarding school. It shows how parents and students made the best of their limited educational choices--using the school to pursue their own educational goals--and how the school linked urban Indians to both the services and the controls of reservation life.
Download or read book Learning to Write Indian written by Amelia V. Katanski and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Indian boarding school narratives and their impact on the Native literary tradition from 1879 to the present Indian boarding schools were the lynchpins of a federally sponsored system of forced assimilation. These schools, located off-reservation, took Native children from their families and tribes for years at a time in an effort to “kill” their tribal cultures, languages, and religions. In Learning to Write “Indian,” Amelia V. Katanski investigates the impact of the Indian boarding school experience on the American Indian literary tradition through an examination of turn-of-the-century student essays and autobiographies as well as contemporary plays, novels, and poetry. Many recent books have focused on the Indian boarding school experience. Among these Learning to Write “Indian” is unique in that it looks at writings about the schools as literature, rather than as mere historical evidence.
