To Educate American Indians: Selected Writings from the National Educational Association's Department of Indian Education, 1900-1904

Winner of the 2025 Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award

To Educate American Indians presents the most complete versions of papers presented at the National Educational Association’s Department of Indian Education meetings during a time when the debate about how best to “civilize” Indigenous populations dominated discussions. During this time two philosophies drove the conversation. The first, an Enlightenment era–influenced universalism, held that through an educational alchemy American Indians ...