During the late nineteenth century, policymakers undertook an intense campaign to assimilate Indians through education. The author examines three perspectives of that time: (1) the Protestant ideology, (2) the civilization-savagism paradigm, and (3) the quest for land by Whites. He explores how these translated into concrete educational policy.…

This book examines how government boarding schools were used for acculturating American Indian youth to "American" ways of thinking and living from 1875 to 1928. Based on government archives, student and teacher autobiographies, and school newspapers, this book proposes that the last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the…