History

What is his argument for educating Indian students off the reservation? The day on which the Land in Severalty Bill was signed was announced to be the emancipation day for the Indians. The fallacy of that idea is so en- tirely demonstrated that the emancipation assumption is now withdrawn. We shall have to go elsewhere, […]

What parallels does Pratt see between Indians and African Americans? present place. No other influence or force would have so speedily accom- plished such a result. Left in Africa, surrounded by their fellow-savages, our seven millions of industrious black fellow-citizens would still be sav- ages. Transferred into these new surroundings and experiences, behold the result.

The Education of Indian Students at Carlisle (1891) A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, and that high sanction of his destruction has been an enormous factor in promoting Indian massacres. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there

How did he propose to achieve it? Instructions to Indian Agents and Superintendents of Indian Schools (1889) The great purpose which the Government has in view in providing an am- ple system of common school education for all Indian youth of school age, is the preparation of them for American citizenship. The Indians are destined

Reformers and Indian Education Reformers did not believe that the Indian problem could be solved only by breaking up the reservation. Instead, education had to supplement sever- alty. After the breakup of the reservations, therefore, the education of Native American children was the chief interest of most “friends of the Indian” in the late nineteenth

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‘What factors or circumstances would have changed the outcome? To each head of a family, one-quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one-eighth of a section; and To each other single person under eighteen years now

What were the most important factors influencing the nature and impact of Indian reform? The passage of the General Allotment Law, or Dawes Act, in 1887 rep-resented a major victory for reformers. Sponsored by Massachusetts Republican Senator Henry L. Dawes, the act allotted reservation lands in severalty (that is, with individual ownership rights) to Indians.

How did the Native Americans views or beliefs influence their response to these reforms? Land in severalty, on which to make a home for his family. This land the Government should, where necessary, for a few years hold in trust for him or his heirs, inalienable and unchargeable. But it shall be his. It shall

How did their views or beliefs influence their proposals? rendered, cuts the nerve of all that manful effort which political economy teaches us proceeds from the desire for wealth. True ideas of property with all the civilizing influences that such ideas excite are formed only as the tribal relation is outgrown. . . . But