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Myth, Metaphor, and Meaning in The Boy Who Could Not Understand: A Study of Seneca Auto-Criticism
Jay Hansford C. Vest American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2006, pp. 41-62. Contends that Native Americans do not lack an historic tradition of philosophy, that wisdom is apparent in American Indian oral tradition, and that what they do have is often misunderstood or rejected by the Western culture. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Nether World of Neither World: Hybridization in the Literature of Wendy Rose
Karen Tongson-McCall American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4, 1996, pp. 1-40. Presents argument that authors cannot disengage themselves from their Western learning and acculturation. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The New Assimilation Movement: Standards, Tests, and Anglo-American Supremacy
Jack D. Forbes Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 39, No. 2, Winter, 2000, pp. 7-28. Asserts that curriculum standards are not always objective or free from biases More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"A New Understanding of Things Indian": George Raley's Negotiation of the Residential School Experience
Paige Raibmon BC Studies, No. 110, Summer, 1996, pp. 69-96. Article discusses the work of the principal of the Coqualeetza Indian Residential School, which is generally viewed in a positive light, to illustrate both the limitations and the latitude present in the system. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Nineteenth-Century Indian Education: Universalism Versus Evolutionism
Jacqueline Fear-Segal Journal of American Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, 1999, pp. 323-341. Argues that while Hampton Institute and Carlisle Indian School were both instruments of assimilation and followed similar curriculums, the philosophy behind them differed. Pratt, the founder of Carlisle, believed that Native Americans could be integrated into the general population within one generation. Armstrong, the founder of Hampton, believed that it would take several generations to move the "savages" up the evolutionary scale. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
A Non-Answer to a Request for a Teacher's Guide to Indian Children
Stephen Bayne Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 10, No. 2, January 1971, pp. 29-33. Thoughts and personal feelings about guides to help teachers relate to Native American children. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Note on the Shingwauk Industrial Home for Indians
J. Donald Wilson Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, Vol. 16, No. 4, December 1, 1974, pp. 66-71. Describes the policies, practises and curriculum of the school, as well as the philosophy of its founder, Rev. E. F. Wilson. Brief mention of the the Wawanosh School for girls. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"A Nucleus of Civilization": American Indian Families at Hampton Institute in the Late Nineteenth Century
W. Roger Buffalohead, Paulette Fairbanks Molin Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 35, No. 3, May 1996, pp. 59-94. Discusses the program which ran from 1882 to 1891 and focused on the assimilation of the family unit rather than the individual. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"Object Lessons": Domesticity and Display in Native American Assimilation
Jane E. Simonsen American Studies, Vol. 43, No. 1, Spring, 2002, pp. 75-99. Looks at the promotion of home-building programs on reservations, from the white imagination to the realities of tribal life, by examining instances of attempted domestic reform. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Of Hating, Hurting, and Coming to Terms With the English Language
Lenore Keeshig-Tobias Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2003, pp. 89-100. Discusses how language can empower people or disenfranchise them. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Off-Reservation Boarding High School Teachers: How Are They Perceived by Former American Indian Students
Ben Chavis The Social Science Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1, January 1999, p. 33. Discusses various recollections of the teacher-student relationships Native American's had with their former teachers in boarding school settings, and looks at the process of assimilation fostered within the context of an all-Indian boarding school. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Ojibwa World View: A Re-Examination
Damian McShane, Arthur W. Blue The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1985, pp. 115-134. Reviews literature on Ojibwa culture and personality with a focus on acculturation studies and child-rearing practises. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Ontological Destruction: Genocide and Canadian Aboriginal Peoples
Andrew Woolford Genocide Studies and Prevention, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring, 2009, pp. 81-97. Looks at how Aboriginal groups experienced assimilation in different ways and discusses the separation between cultural and physical forms of destruction. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Out of Harm’s Way: Relocating Northwest Alaska Eskimos, 1907–1917
James H. Ducker American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1996, pp. 43-71. Looks at the reasons for displacement in Alaska and why the Bureau of Education's efforts included an emphasis on preparing the local inhabitants for a more urban society, one in which some degree of assimilation and integration would be inevitable. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"Part of That Whole System": Maritime Day and Residential Schooling and Federal Culpability
Martha Walls The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2010, pp. 361-385. Comments on the flawed day school system which compelled students' attendance at residential school. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Phoenix Indian School Band, 1894-1930
Greg Handel, Jere Humphreys Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Vol. 16, No. 2, April 2005. Looks at the development, growth and performance tours of the Phoenix Indian School Band in Arizona. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Playing White Men: American Football and Manhood at the Carlisle Indian School, 1893–1904
Matthew Bentley The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth , Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring, 2010, pp. 187-209. Discusses how Richard Henry Pratt used football to socialize students and promote assimilationist policies. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The "Policy of Aggressive Civilization" and Projects of Governance in Roman Catholic Industrial Schools for Native Peoples in Canada, 1870-95
Derek G. Smith Anthropologica, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2001, pp. 253-271. Explores three projects of governance (civilization, protection, assimilation) that are embodied in industrial schools, and looks at the founding of the earliest industrials schools, information that is located in government and mission archives. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Political Protest, Conflict, and Tribal Nationalism: The Oklahoma Choctaws and the Termination Crisis of 1959-1970.
Valerie Lambert American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring, 2007, pp. 283-309. Argues that contrary to accepted wisdom, there was a movement to resist the process of assimilation advocated by Harry J. W. Belvin and that this resistance began with the Choctaw youth movement. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Political Thought of Sol Tax: The Principles of Non-Assimilation and Self-Government in Action Anthropology
Joshua Smith Histories of Anthropology Annual, Vol. 6, 2010, pp. 129-170. Looks at how Sol Tax incorporated action anthropology, through conventional tactics, into his goals of challenging the United States government policies and also challenged assimilationist ideals found in both science and politics. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"Poor Richard" Meets the Native American: Schooling for Young Indian Women in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
Margaret Connell Szasz Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 49, No. 2, May 1980, pp. 215-235. Discusses the history and policies of Moor's School, an institution founded by a Congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock in 1754. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
"Pray Sir, Consider a LIttle": Rituals of Subordination and Strategies of Resistance in the Letters of Hezekiah Calvin and David Fowler to Eleazar Wheelock, 1764-1768
Laura Murray Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 4, No. 2/3, Series 2 , Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 48-74. Looks at letters from two of Wheelock's students that give insight into the nature of his relationships with his students and the role of writing within those relationships. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Reclaiming a Lost Identity
Sian Griffiths New Internationalist, No. 440, March 2011, pp. 44-45. Presents an interview with Murray Sinclair, chair of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and discusses various residential school policies of assimilation. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Red Apples
Richard C. Boutwell, William C. Low, Kristin Williams, Thomas Proffit Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 12, No. 2, January 1973, pp. 11-14. Surveys problems in education, conditions affecting academic standing and attitutudes about discrimination; researches whether differences between Native American and Non-Native American students found. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 2, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Red River Indian Mission School and John West's "Little Charges", 1820-1833
Winona Stevenson Native Studies Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 & 2, 1988, pp. 129-165. Paper presents 3 objectives: to determine factors which encouraged the Hudson Bay Company and Church Missionary Society to offer education and Christian instruction to Indian children; to look at students experiences, acquisition and treatment; to assess changing priorities and focuses of educational programs in Rupertsland. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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