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- Title
Beyond the Boarding School.
- Authors
Fisher, Andrew H.
- Abstract
The article discusses the education of Columbia River Indians during the 19th and 20th centuries. Their attendance at both boarding schools and public schools is explained. The author connects such U.S. government-sponsored education to the government's attempt to assimilate the Columbia River Indians into dominant American culture. Public school opposition to the enrollment of off-reservation Indian children is explained, as is the racist depiction of Native Americans in history textbooks. The way in which English-only education was seen as detrimental to Columbia River Indian identity by many parents is also explained.
- Subjects
EDUCATION of Native Americans; PACIFIC Northwest peoples (North American peoples); PUBLIC education; OFF-reservation Indians (Native Americans); BOARDING schools; AMERICANIZATION; DISCRIMINATION in education; ENGLISH language education
- Publication
Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History, 2012, Vol 26, Issue 4, p5
- ISSN
0892-3094
- Publication type
Article