Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928

by David Wallace Adams

Overview

A poignant and heartbreaking book that chronicles the infamous history of the U.S. government’s efforts to indoctrinate, deculturize, and “Americanize” Native peoples through the use of boarding schools.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700629602
Publisher:	University Press of Kansas
Publication date:	05/29/2020
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

David Wallace Adams is professor emeritus at Cleveland State University, and author of Three Roads to Magdalena: Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990, also from Kansas.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Illustrations

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Prologue: 1882

Part One: Civilization

1. Reform

2. Models

3. System

Part Two: Education

4. Institution

5. Classroom

6. Rituals

Part Three: Response

7. Resistance

8. Accommodation

Part Four: Causatum

9. Home

10. Policy

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

An account of the Native American experience in government boarding schools, based on government archives, student and teacher autobiographies, and school newspapers, revealing coping strategies of Indian youth in institutions designed to reconstruct them psychologically and culturally. Chronicles the government's gradual retreat from its assimilationist vision due to student resistance and its contradictory set of humanitarian and racist motivations. Contains b&w photos. Of interest to students and general readers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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