Kill the Indian, save the man : the genocidal impact of American Indian residential schools
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0872864340
ISBN 13
9780872864344
Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
128
Tags
United States, Race Relations, Social Policy, Residential schools -- History, Residential schools -- United States, Residential Schools, Indigenous children -- Relocation -- United States -- History, Indigenous children -- Education, Indigenous children -- Social conditions, Indigenous peoples -- United States -- Residential schools, Indigenous peoples -- United States -- Government relations, United States -- Social policy, United States -- Race Relations
Abstract
"For five consecutive generations, from roughly 1880 to 1980, Native American children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools. The stated goal of this government program was to "kill the Indian to save the man." Half of the children did not survive the experience, and those who did were left permanently scarred. The resulting alcoholism, suicide, and the transmission of trauma to their own children has led to a social disintegration with results that can only be described as genocidal."--Amazon.
Number of Copies
1
