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Assimilation's Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System

Assimilation's Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System

Chalcraft, Edwin L.
Collins, Cary C.
Collins, Cary C.

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Biographies GeneralNative American HistoryGeneral United States History

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0803222440
ISBN13: 9780803222441
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Sep 1 2007
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Assimilation's Agent reveals the life and opinions of Edwin L. Chalcraft (1855-1943), a superintendent in the federal Indian boarding schools during the critical period of forced assimilation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chalcraft was hired by the Office of Indian Affairs (now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs) in 1883. During his nearly four decades of service, he worked at a number of Indian boarding schools and agencies, including the Chehalis Indian School in Oakville, Washington; Puyallup Indian School in Tacoma, Washington; Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon; Wind River Indian School in Wind River, Wyoming; Jones Male Academy in Hartshorne, Oklahoma; and Siletz Indian Agency in Oregon.

In this memoir Chalcraft discusses the Grant peace policy, the inspection system, allotment, the treatment of tuberculosis, corporal punishment, alcoholism, and patronage. Extensive coverage is also given to the Indian Shaker Church and the government's response to this perceived threat to assimilation. Assimilation's Agent illuminates the sometimes treacherous political maneuverings and difficult decisions faced by government officials at Indian boarding schools. It offers a rarely heard and today controversial top-down view of government policies to educate and assimilate Indians.

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