Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; 1. Art "Lifts Them to Her Own High Level": Nineteenth- Century Art Education; 2. "An Indispensable Adjunct to All Training of This Kind": The Place of Art in Indian Schools; 3. "Show Him the Needs of Civilization and How to Adapt His Work to the Needs of the Hour": Native Arts and Crafts in Indian Schools
4. "The Administration Has No Sympathy with Perpetuation of Any Except the Most Substantial of Indian Handicraft": Art Education at the Albuquerque Indian School5. "Drawing and All the Natural Artistic Talents of the Pupils Are Encouraged and Cultivated": Art Education at Sherman Institute; 6. "Susie Chase- the- Enemy and Her Friends Do Good Work": Exhibits from Indian Schools at Fairs and Expositions; 7. "The Comparison with the Work of White Scholars Is Not Always to the Credit of the Latter": Art Training on Display at Educational Conventions; Conclusion
Appendix A: List of Fairs, Expositions, and Educational Conventions That Featured Indian School ExhibitsAppendix B: Day, Reservation, and Non- Reservation Schools Represented at Major National and International Fairs; Appendix C: Layouts of Minneapolis and Boston Exhibits; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
"An examination of government-controlled schools' use of art education as a process for assimilating American Indian children at the turn of the twentieth century."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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