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To Educate American Indians

Selected Writings from the National Educational Association’s Department of Indian Education, 1900–1904

Larry C. Skogen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
432 Seiten
2024
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3676-0 (ISBN)
77,30 inkl. MwSt
To Educate American Indians collects selected writings from the National Educational Association’s Department of Indian Education from 1900 to 1904 to examine more fully the tragedy of assimilationism and cultural genocide conducted in federally-run American Indian schools, including the notorious boarding schools.
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 would become productive, Christianized Americans, distinguishable from their white neighbors only by the color of their skin. Directly confronting the assimilationists’ universalism were the progressive educators who, strongly influenced by the era’s scientific racism, held the notion that American Indians could never become fully assimilated. Despite these differing views, a frightening ethnocentrism and an honor-bound dedication to “gifting” civilization to Native students dominated the writings of educators from the NEA’s Department of Indian Education.

For a decade educators gathered at annual meetings and presented papers on how best to educate Native students. Though the NEA Proceedings published these papers, strict guidelines often meant they were heavily edited before publication. In this volume Larry C. Skogen presents many of these unedited papers and gives them historical context for the years 1900 to 1904.
 

Larry C. Skogen is president emeritus of Bismarck State College, an independent historian, and a retired member of the U.S. Air Force. He is the author of Indian Depredation Claims, 1796–1920. David Wallace Adams (1941–2023) was a professor emeritus of education at Cleveland State University and the author of Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928.  

List of Illustrations Foreword, by David Wallace Adams
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note on Editorial Style, Citations, and Names
List of Abbreviations Part 1. Charleston, South Carolina, July 7–13, 1900
1. What Is the Relation of the Indian of the Present Decade to the Indian of the Future? 
H. B. Frissell, Principal, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia
2. The Indian Problem
H. B. Frissell, Principal, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia
3. The Proper Relation between Literary and Industrial Education in Indian Schools
A. J. Standing, Assistant Superintendent, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
4. The Training of Teachers for Indian Schools
Charles Bartlett Dyke, Director of the Normal Department, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia
5. Teaching Trades to Indians
Frank K. Rogers, Director, Armstrong-Slater Memorial Trade School, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia
6. The Training of the Indian Girl as the Uplifter of the Home
Josephine E. Richards, Head of the Indian Department, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia
7. Practical Methods of Indian Education
John Seger, Superintendent, Seger Colony School, Colony, Oklahoma
Part 2. Detroit, Michigan, July 8–12, 1901
8. President’s Address: Learning by Doing
H. B. Frissell, Principal, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia
9. Civilization and Higher Education
William T. Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Washington DC
10. The Reservation Day School Should Be the Prime Factor in Indian Education
C. C. Covey, Teacher, Pine Ridge Indian School, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
11. The Unification of Industrial and Academic Features of the Indian School
O. H. Bakeless, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
12. What Shall Be Taught in an Indian School? 
Calvin M. Woodward, Director, Manual Training School of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
13. An All-Around Mechanical Training for Indians
Frank K. Rogers, Director, Armstrong-Slater Memorial Trade School, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia
14. Practical Methods in Indian Education
Joseph W. Evans, Teacher, Chilocco Indian School, Chilocco, Oklahoma
15. Character Building among Indian Children
Cora M. Folsom, Teacher and Indian Corresponding Secretary, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia
16. The Day School: The Gradual Uplifter of the Tribe
Macaria Murphy, Teacher, Odanah Day School, Odanah, Wisconsin
17. The Necessity for a Large Agricultural School in the Indian Service
C. W. Goodman, Superintendent, Chilocco Indian School, Chilocco, Oklahoma
Part 3. Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 7–11, 1902
18. President’s Address
S. M. McCowan, Superintendent, Chilocco Indian School, Chilocco, Oklahoma
19. The Value of an Agricultural School in the Indian Service
S. M. McCowan, Superintendent, Chilocco Indian School, Chilocco, Oklahoma
20. The Value of the Outing System for Girls
Laura Jackson, Girls’ Manager, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
21. What Is Our Aim? 
E. A. Allen, Assistant Superintendent, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
22. Needed Changes in Indian Schools
A. O. Wright, Supervisor of Indian Schools, Washington DC
23. The Value of Day Schools
James J. Duncan, Day School Inspector, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
24. Newspapers in Indian Schools
W. T. Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Washington DC
Part 4. Boston, Massachusetts, July 6–10, 1903
25. President’s Address: Our Work, Its Progress and Needs
H. B. Peairs, Superintendent, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas
26. To What Degree Has the Present System of Indian Schools Been Successful in Qualifying for Citizenship? 
H. B. Frissell, Principal, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia
27. An Alaskan Start toward Citizenship
Sheldon Jackson, General Agent of Education in Alaska, Washington DC
28. The White Man’s Burden versus Indigenous Development for the Lower Races
G. Stanley Hall, President, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
29. Heart Culture in Indian Education
Charles F. Meserve, President, Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina
30. Tenure in the Civil Service
John T. Doyle, Secretary of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, Washington DC
Part 5. St. Louis, Missouri, June 27–July 1, 1904
31. Efficiency in the Indian Service
John T. Doyle, Secretary of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, Washington DC
32. Indian Music and Indian Education
Natalie Curtis, New York, New York
33. What’s in a Name? 
Emily S. Cook, Office of Indian Affairs, Washington DC
34. Indian Names
Alice C. Fletcher, Ex-President of the Anthropological Society, Washington DC Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Indigenous Education
Vorwort David Wallace Adams
Zusatzinfo 6 photographs, 1 illustration, 1 table, index
Verlagsort Lincoln
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4962-3676-9 / 1496236769
ISBN-13 978-1-4962-3676-0 / 9781496236760
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