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

Skogen, Larry C. (EDT); Adams, David Wallace (FRW)

ISBN 10: 1496236769 / ISBN 13: 9781496236760

Edité par University of Nebraska Press, 2024

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• Titre: To Educate American Indians : Selected Writings from the National Educational Association?s Department of Indian Education, 1900?1904
• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1496236769
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781496236760
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l'auteur

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.