Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
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Author/Creator
Margaret D. Jacobs
Description
Compares the forced removal of American Indian and Aboriginal children in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, arguing that governments intentionally removed indigenous children to institutions as acts of colonial control, not assimilation.
Chapter from Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Jean A. Keller, Lorene Sisquoc.
American Educational History Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, 2006, pp. 97-105
Description
Discusses the use of print media to promote educational reforms, substitution of community day schools for boarding schools, replacement of curriculum to promote Aboriginal culture, and the use of vocational programs to benefit Aboriginal communities.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 45, no. 1, 2006, pp. 17-34
Description
Looks at the assimilation practices carried out during the first twenty years of government control of Alaska Natives' education and the devastating changes caused to Inupiat communities.
A collection of materials on the attitudes and practices associated with the removal of Aboriginal children from their homes. Includes representative testimonies from those who were separated from their families and communities.