Selling Indian Education at World's Fairs and Expositions, 1893-1904
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert A. Trennert
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer, 1987, pp. 203-220
Description
Argues that although Bureau of Indian Affairs officials viewed events as an opportunity to promote its assimilation program and display the "progress" students had made, their efforts failed because the public was much more interested in the romanticized, stereotypical version of American Indian.