To educate American Indians

• Titel: To educate American Indians
• Titelzusatz: selected writings from the National Educational Association's Department of Indian Education, 1900-1904
• Mitwirkende: Skogen, Larry Clifford [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Adams, David Wallace [VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes]
• Verf.angabe: edited and with an introduction by Larry C. Skogen ; foreword by David Wallace Adams
• Verlagsort: Lincoln
• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: xl, 377 Seiten, 8 unnummerierte Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Indigenous education
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-3676-0
• Schlagwörter: (g)USA / (s)Indianer / (s)Schule / (s)Erziehung / (z)Geschichte 1900-1904
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
• Sach-SW: EDUCATION / History
• Sach-SW: Geschichte der Pädagogik
• Sach-SW: History of education
• Sach-SW: Indigene Völker
• Sach-SW: Indigenous peoples
• Sach-SW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• K10plus-PPN: 1866087916

Abstract

"To Educate American Indians presents the most complete versions of papers presented at the National Educational Association's Department of Indian Education meetings during a time when the debate about how best to "civilize" Indigenous populations dominated discussions. During this time two philosophies drove the conversation. The first, an Enlightenment era-influenced universalism, held that through an educational alchemy American Indians would become productive, Christianized Americans, distinguishable from their white neighbors only by the color of their skin. Directly confronting the assimilationists' universalism were the progressive educators who, strongly influenced by the era's scientific racism, held the notion that American Indians could never become fully assimilated. Despite these differing views, a frightening ethnocentrism and an honor-bound dedication to "gifting" civilization to Native students dominated the writings of educators from the NEA's Department of Indian Education. For a decade educators gathered at annual meetings and presented papers on how best to educate Native students. Though the NEA Proceedings published these papers, strict guidelines often meant they were heavily edited before publication. In this volume Larry C. Skogen presents many of these unedited papers and gives them historical context for the years 1900 to 1904."

Abstract

To Educate American Indians collects selected writings from the National Educational Association s Department of Indian Education from 1900 to 1904 to examine more fully the tragedy of assimilationism and cultural genocide conducted in federally-run American Indian schools, including the notorious boarding schools