Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 powwow Although the movement was often

Although the movement was often criticized as backward and disconnected from the harsh realities of Native life

From a celebrated Chickasaw writer

variations of this Unktomi story have been told

carefully arranged

and intellectual frameworks in their struggles toward liberation and self-determination

Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 powwow Although the movement was oftenThe last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian children from their homes for extended periods of time, policymakers reasoned, could white "civilization" take root while childhood memories of "savagism" gradually faded to the point of extinction. In the words of one official: "Kill the Indian and save the man." This fully revised edition of