United States: Seeking The Voices Of American Indian And Irish Schoolchildren (1820s–1920s): Autobiographical Reminiscence as Historical Source


United States: Seeking The Voices Of American Indian And Irish Schoolchildren (1820s–1920s): Autobiographical Reminiscence as Historical Source   Michael C. Coleman, 2012   During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (ca. 1820s–1920s) the US and British governments utilized elementary education as a tool of assimilation. Huge numbers of Indian and Irish children confronted educational systems designed to separate them from local cultural values. Much top-down official evidence...

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