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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David Wallace AdamsPublisher: University Press of Kansas Imprint: University Press of Kansas Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9780700608386ISBN 10: 0700608389 Pages: 396 Publication Date: 30 October 1995 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsEducation 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 of The 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 of The 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 of The Phoenix Indian School: Forced Assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1988 This is, quite simply, a wonderful book. In lively prose, Adams tells the poignant story of the relentless war against American Indian children. It is a tale about policy makers who sought to use boarding schools as an instrument for transforming Indian youth to 'American' ways of thinking, doing, and living. Adams demonstrates convincingly that Native American students were anything but passive recipients of the 'curriculum of civilization.' --Choice A story worth reading and remembering, one that reveals the use of education as a weapon of war, a method of domination, a strong lesson in the potential for education to become part of a political and cultural arsenal. --American Journal of Education Remarkable for its synthesis of detail, its scope, and especially its sophisticated analysis and sound reasoning about the multiple conflicting motivations of both whites and Indians. --American Historical Review A poignant and heartbreaking book that chronicles the infamous history of the U.S. government's efforts to indoctrinate, deculturalize, and 'Americanize' Native peoples through the use of boarding schools. . . . This is a must-read book for all educators, especially for those who wish to work with students of color. As this book powerfully reminds us, education is an encounter, not a discovery. --Harvard Educational Review Adams's contribution to the literature in this field will be valued by students of the Native American experience as a comprehensive source that reveals many of the complexities and ambiguities of the boarding school era. --History of Education Quarterly Well researched, well conceptualized, and extremely well written. --Western Historical Quarterly 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 of The 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 of The 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 of The Phoenix Indian School: Forced Assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1988 -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 of The 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 of The 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 of The Phoenix Indian School: Forced Assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1988 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. --<b>Robert M. Utley</b>, author of <i>The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull</i> 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. --<b>Brian Dippie</b>, author of <i>The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy</i> An outstanding contribution to the field of Indian history and the history of Indian education. --<b>Robert Trennert</b>, author of <i>The Phoenix Indian School: Forced Assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1988</i> 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 of The 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 of The 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 of The Phoenix Indian School: Forced Assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1988 -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 of The 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 of The 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 of The Phoenix Indian School: Forced Assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1988 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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