Discusses deeper meaning of assimilation policies as factors of Indian schooling based on 3 perspectives; Protestant ideology, civilized versus savage paradigm, and land quest of whites.
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 58, no. 1, February 1988
Description
Examines three perspectives that were factors in the campaign to assimilate aboriginal people through schooling: the Protestant ideology, the civilization-savagism paradigm, and the quest for land by Whites.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2, 1979, pp. 115-134
Description
An examination into the introduction of land allotments into Indian Territory and the efforts of Cherokee lobbyists to prevent its implementation in the late nineteenth century.
Report submitted in 1879 to the Canadian Minister of the Interior. Describes system used in the United States and makes recommendations regarding the possible establishment of similar institutions in the North-West Territories of the Dominion of Canada.
Journal of Social History, vol. 22, no. 1, Autumn, 1988, pp. 113-128
Description
Discusses the specific case of Amanda Chingren, who oversaw the "outing" (transition from residential schools or reservations to domestic employment) of Native American girls.