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• Title:This benevolent experiment : indigenous boarding schools, genocide, and redress in Canada and the United States / Andrew Woolford.
  
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• Author/Creator:Woolford, Andrew John, 1971- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ERA W66 B46 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Indian children--Education--History.
  Off-reservation boarding schools--Manitoba--History.
  Off-reservation boarding schools--New Mexico--History.
  Education--Political aspects--United States--History.
  Education--Political aspects--Canada--History.
  Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--History.
  Genocide--North America--History.
  Indians of North America--Reparations--History.
  Reparations for historical injustices--Canada--History.
  Reparations for historical injustices--United States--History.
  
• Description:xiv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Indigenous education.
  
• Summary:"A nuanced comparative history of Indigenous boarding schools in the U.S. and Canada"-- Provided by publisher.
  "At the end of the nineteenth century, Indigenous boarding schools were touted as the means for solving the 'Indian problem' in both the United States and Canada. With the goal of permanently transforming Indigenous young people into Europeanized colonial subjects, the schools were ultimately a means for eliminating Indigenous communities as obstacles to land acquisition, resource extraction, and nation-building. Andrew Woolford analyzes the formulation of the 'Indian problem' as a policy concern in the United States and Canada and examines how the 'solution' of Indigenous boarding schools was implemented in Manitoba and New Mexico through complex chains that included multiple government offices with a variety of staffs, Indigenous peoples, and even nonhuman actors such as poverty, disease, and space. The genocidal project inherent in these boarding schools, however, did not unfold in either nation without diversion, resistance, and unintended consequences. Inspired by the signing of the 2006 Residential School Settlement Agreement in Canada, which provided a truth and reconciliation commission and compensation for survivors of residential schools, This Benevolent Experiment offers a multilayered, comparative analysis of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Because of differing historical, political, and structural influences, the two countries have arrived at two very different responses to the harms caused by assimilative education"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-396) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780803276727 (hardback : alkaline paper)
  0803276729 (hardback : alkaline paper)
  9780803284418 (ePub)
  9780803284425 (MOBI)
  9780803284432 (PDF)
  
• Contents:Settler Colonial Genocide in North America
  Framing the Indian as a Problem
  Schools, Staff, Parents, Communities, and Students
  Discipline and Desire as Assimilative Techniques
  Knowledge and Violence as Assimilative Techniques
  Local Actors and Assimilation
  Aftermaths and Redress.