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To Change Them Forever - by Clyde Ellis (Paperback)

Name: To Change Them Forever - by Clyde Ellis (Paperback)
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
SKU: 1010128660
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Reservation boarding schools represented an important component in the U.S. government's campaign in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to "civilize" American Indians according to Anglo-American standards.
Author(s): Clyde Ellis
276 Pages
History, Native American

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A case history of the U.S. attempts to assimilate American Indians

Book Synopsis

Reservation boarding schools represented an important component in the U.S. government's campaign in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to "civilize" American Indians according to Anglo-American standards. The history of the Rainy Mountain School in southwestern Oklahoma reveals much about the form and function of the Indian policy and its consequences for the Kiowa children who attended the school.

In To Change Them Forever, Clyde Ellis surveys changes in government policy and tells how the Kiowa people resisted and accommodated the efforts of school personnel to transform them. Ellis combines archival research with personal memoirs, conversations with former students, and the school's official records to portray a school often at odds with official policy and frequently neglected by the Indian Service's bureaucracy.

Review Quotes

"A welcome addition to the study of cultural transformation and Indian struggle for survival."--Southern Historian

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .61 Inches (D)

Weight: .77 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 276

Genre: History

Sub-Genre: Native American

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Clyde Ellis

Language: English

Street Date: September 5, 2008

TCIN: 1010128660

UPC: 9780806139913

Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-6526

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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