Post by gregor on Jul 31, 2013 6:22:50 GMT -5
I recently found the book
White Mother to a Dark Race: [Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940]
by Margaret D. Jacobs (University of Nebraska Press, 2009 / 557 pages)
I would like to recommend here.
A chapter of the book describes "The Practice of Indigenous Child Removal" [to the boarding schools] in the United States, and the role of Pratt, the churches and - new to me - the role of Indian Rights Movements and the involvement of known persons like (e.g.) Alice Fletcher, Thomas Tibbles and Susette LaFlesche. Among other things, the „subtle“ techniques are described, with which the U.S. government forced Native Americans to send their children to boarding school. A chapter of history that still raises rage. But also sad - the role and participation of individual "converted" Native Americans, who absorbed Pratt's position or as teachers preached his „gospel“. One teacher of Arikara origin boasted in her later years: „I have preached the gospel of soap“. A sentence, that says it all. Sad, sad, sad.
White Mother to a Dark Race: [Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940]
by Margaret D. Jacobs (University of Nebraska Press, 2009 / 557 pages)
I would like to recommend here.
A chapter of the book describes "The Practice of Indigenous Child Removal" [to the boarding schools] in the United States, and the role of Pratt, the churches and - new to me - the role of Indian Rights Movements and the involvement of known persons like (e.g.) Alice Fletcher, Thomas Tibbles and Susette LaFlesche. Among other things, the „subtle“ techniques are described, with which the U.S. government forced Native Americans to send their children to boarding school. A chapter of history that still raises rage. But also sad - the role and participation of individual "converted" Native Americans, who absorbed Pratt's position or as teachers preached his „gospel“. One teacher of Arikara origin boasted in her later years: „I have preached the gospel of soap“. A sentence, that says it all. Sad, sad, sad.