Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
"Education for Extinction delivers on the promise of its title. This is a thorough and thoughtful study of the federal government's Indian education program that was explicitly aimed at extinguishing a culture. That it failed testifies to a deficient understanding of cultural dynamics as well as to the durability of Indian culture. An important contribution to the literature of Indian-white relations."--Robert M. Utley, author ofThe Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull"Adams has achieved something remarkable here: he offers a great deal of information on an important and difficult historical topic while never losing sight of its human dimension. Persuasive and moving, his book is full of good stories that should appeal to the general public."--Brian Dippie, author ofThe Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy"An outstanding contribution to the field of Indian history and the history of Indian education."--Robert Trennert, author ofThe Phoenix Indian School: Forced Assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1988