Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 art the Peacemaker

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Dakota people are still struggling with the effects of this unimaginable loss

medicine people have called on the spiritual world to help humans in their relationships with each other and the natural world

Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 art the PeacemakerThe 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