Title American Indians, the Irish, and government schooling : a comparative study / Michael C. Coleman

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 367 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps Series Indigenous education Indigenous education. Contents Education in Native America and Ireland to the 1820s -- The school as weapon of state -- The local community and the school -- Regimentation -- Curriculum -- School staff -- Peers and mediation -- Resistance and rejection -- Results Summary For centuries American Indians and the Irish experienced assaults by powerful, expanding states, along with massive land loss and population collapse. In the early nineteenth century the U.S. government, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), began a systematic campaign to assimilate Indians. Initially dependent on Christian missionary societies, the BIA later built and ran its own day schools and boarding schools for Indian children. At the same time, the British government established a nationwide elementary school system in Ireland, overseen by the commissioners of national education, to assimilate the Irish. By the 1920s, as these campaigns of cultural transformation were ending, roughly similar proportions of Indian and Irish children attended state-regulated schools. In the first full comparison of American and British government attempts to assimilate "problem peoples" through mass elementary education, Michael C. Coleman presents a complex and fascinating portrait of imperialism at work in the two nations.; Drawing on autobiographies, government records, elementary school curricula, and other historical documents, as well as photographs and maps, Coleman conveys a rich personal sense of what it was like to have been a pupil at a school where one's language was not spoken and one's local culture almost erased. In absolute terms the campaigns failed, yet the schools deeply changed Indian and Irish peoples in ways unpredictable both to them and to their educators. Meticulously researched and engaging, American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling sets the agenda for a new era of comparative analyses in global indigenous studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-352) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Indians of North America -- Education. Indians of North America -- Government relations. Irish -- Education -- Great Britain Irish -- Great Britain -- Government relations Education -- Cross-cultural studies. EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies. Education Indians of North America -- Education Indians of North America -- Government relations Social policy Bildungspolitik SUBJECT United States -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547 Great Britain -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001105 Subject Great Britain United States Großbritannien Irland USA Indianer. Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9780803206250 0803206259 9786610823710 6610823715

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