This benevolent experiment : Indigenous boarding schools, genocide, and redress in Canada and the United States / Andrew Woolford.
"A nuanced comparative history of Indigenous boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada" -- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780887557866 (bound)
- ISBN: 0887557864 (bound)
- Physical Description: xiv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press ; [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-396) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Settler Colonial Genocide in North America -- Framing the Indian as a Problem -- Schools, Staff, Parents, Communities, and Students -- Discipline and Desire as Assimilative Techniques -- Knowledge and Violence as Assimilative Techniques -- Local Actors and Assimilation -- Aftermaths and Redress. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | E 96 W66 2015 (Text) | 26040003180508 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Taking a comparative approach, Woolford focuses on the Albuquerque Indian School, the Santa Fe Indian School, the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School, and Portage la Prairie Indian Residential School to serve as the basis for comparisons drawn from secondary literature, archival documents, and oral histories. He applies the term genocide to the âbenevolent experimentâ of boarding schools for indigenous children, which destroyed indigenous groups as self-sustaining and self-defining entities, and with it went Indian culture, language, traditional society, and family groups--thus eliminating obstacles to land acquisition and resource extraction for the white elite. Distributed in the US by Michigan State U. Press. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)