Acculturation/Assimilation: American Indian Policy in the Progressive Years
Theses
Author/Creator
Daniele Fiorentino
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 1999.
Pamphlet produced in response to debates in Congress on the Indian Appropriation Bill. Includes various letters, articles, statistics, extract from Congressional Record, and The Indian School at Carlisle Barracks, published by U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education in 1880.
Founder of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and proponent of residential school system in the U.S., argues that assimilation is required "to help the Indians to progress into civilization".
Language and content reflect the attitudes of the times but would be considered offensive by modern standards.