The last "Indian War" was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools. Only by removing Indian chil

A broadly based historical survey, this book examines Native American boarding schools in the United States from Puritan times to the present day. Hundreds of t

General Richard Henry Pratt, best known as the founder and longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, profoundly shaped

For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of t