Provides an overview of boarding school stories in children's literature and explains their appeal in terms of the enclosed setting and personal development, learning to fit in, absence of outside influences, the perceived atmosphere, and the established framework of the setting. A list of recommended classic and modern stories is included. (16…

Carlos Montezuma, an Apache, was raised by whites, graduated from medical school, and worked as physician for the Indian Service and Carlisle Indian School. Montezuma's life as colonial surrogate advocating "civilization" of the Indians is compared to Kafka's story of the ape who studied to become a passable European because it was "a way out" of…

Discusses the one-year tenure of Carlos Montezuma--first American Indian physician--at Fort Stevenson Federal Indian Boarding School following his graduation from medical school in 1889. Describes the school's unhealthy conditions, the forced enrollment of Indian children, and the political patronage system for recruiting BIA employees. (SV)

This article starts by locating the early implementation of progressive educational ideas in Britain in small independent schools. It traces the development of one strand of progressive thinking, and identifies three key figures in its growth--Thomas Davidson, Cecil Reddie and Kurt Hahn. (Author)

Opened in 1851, the Cherokee Male Seminary was the first nonsectarian secondary school west of the Mississippi River. It fulfilled the goals of the Cherokee national council to prepare students for higher education, promote the Cherokee economy, and expose children to white values and lifestyle. (SV)

Sierra Leone's Bo School was established in 1906 by British colonial officials to educate chiefs' sons for subordinate positions. Nevertheless, the school contributed to creation of the postindependence ruling class. Enrollment, curriculum, student life, responsibilities of British and African teachers, and alumni networks are examined. Contains…

An attorney involved in Alaska's "Molly Hootch Case" chronicles the events surrounding the class action suit, which resulted in a 1976 consent decree to establish a high school program in all of the 126 villages that wanted one. Legal, educational, and cultural consequences for bush Alaska are discussed. (BS)

Beginning in 1897, American Indians endured their own integration experience in professional baseball. The experience was propelled by government boarding schools, which used baseball as a tool for assimilation and for prestige and profit. But the players on boarding-school teams often found in the sport their own means of cultural resistance and…

In today's "politics of culture," American Indians demand participation in decision making on scholarship and exhibitions about their history and culture. Exhibits such as this one at Hampton archives replace generic Indians with people with names and individual histories, and link the history of Indian education with American history.…

Argues that the teaching of composition in Indian boarding schools, through the combination of textbooks, pedagogical philosophy, and historically-generated pedagogical emphasis on industrial/domestic training, created a situation in which the writing was intended not to assist Indians in becoming "civilized" but to aid in the erasure of Indian…

Discusses books for Nigerian children that deal with the common dilemma of whether to send a village child to boarding school to receive a Western education. Shows which books have stereotypical characterizations and which deal with more natural settings, characters, and issues. (SKC)

The author describes the Allen School of Northborough, Massachusetts, which emphasized the "innate goodness" of children's natures and stressed practice and experience in education. She contrasts the Allens' educational philosophy with that of Bronson Alcott. (Author/SK)

Traces the development of the English-as-a-second-language program for American Indian students at Hampton Institute (Virginia), beginning in 1878. Describes how Hampton teachers reexamined their practices in light of students' experiences and experimented with new pedagogical approaches and theories, some of which would become tenets of…

Details the role of the Cherokee Female Seminary, established in 1851, in facilitating Cherokee acculturation. Describes educational philosophy and influence of A. Florence Wilson, principal for 26 years. Discusses curriculum, daily schedule, discipline, social events, religious influence. (NEC)

Provides a case study of reform movement dynamics in the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1930. Discusses the use of excessive corporal punishment at the Phoenix Indian School. Describes the way in which John Collier used the issue of brutality in government boarding schools to bring down the Bureau of Indian Affairs administration. (KO)