Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
3-1-2000
Abstract
The appearance in recent years of several books on Indian boarding schools attests to historians' growing realization that the efforts of the federal government to solve the so-called Indian problem through education is one of the significant chapters in the history of Indian- white relations. Determined to strip Indian youth of all vestiges of Native outlook, while simultaneously inculcating the knowledge and attitudes of their white colonizers, policy-makers by the end of the nineteenth century had constructed a network of reservation and off-reservation boarding schools devoted to accomplishing the "civilization" process.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2000, pp. 166 – 168. © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.