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To Educate American Indians: Selected Writings from the National Educational Association's Department of Indian Education, 1900-1904 Volume 1

To Educate American Indians: Selected Writings from the National Educational Association's Department of Indian Education, 1900-1904 Volume 1

Adams, David Wallace
Skogen, Larry C.

Hardcover

Series: Indigenous Education

Native American HistoryGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1496236769
ISBN13: 9781496236760
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Feb 1 2024
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.77
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Winner of the 2025 Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award

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.

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