Education for Extinction
American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
Published on 30. October 1995
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-7006-0735-8 (ISBN)
Description
This work shows how American Indian children were deliberately removed from their homes into government boarding schools so that white "civilisation" could take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Kansas
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
825 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7006-0735-8 (9780700607358)
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