Assimilation's Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System
Language: English
Published by University of Nebraska Press, 2007
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- Title
- Assimilation's Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System
- Author
- Chalcraft, Edwin L.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0803222440
- ISBN 13
- 9780803222441
In this memoir Chalcraft discusses the Grant peace policy, the inspection system, allotment, the treatment of tuberculosis, corporal punishment, alcoholism, and patronage. Extensive coverage is also given to the Indian Shaker Church and the government’s response to this perceived threat to assimilation. Assimilation’s Agent illuminates the sometimes treacherous political maneuverings and difficult decisions faced by government officials at Indian boarding schools. It offers a rarely heard and today controversial "top-down" view of government policies to educate and assimilate Indians.
Drawing on a large collection of unpublished letters and documents, Cary C. Collins’s introduction and notes furnish important historical background and context. Assimilation’s Agent illustrates the government's long-term program for dealing with Native peoples and the shortcomings of its approach during one of the most consequential eras in the long and often troubled history of American Indian and white relations.
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