On the Failure of Indian Education

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size NotesWalter Blair, el al., The Literature of the United States (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1966), p. 53.John Barth, The Sot Weed Factor (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1960), chap. 21.Roy Harvey Pearce, “The Significance of the Captivity Narrative,” American Literature, XIX (March, 1947), p. 11.Ibid., p. 3.James Fenimove Cooper, The Deerslayer (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1952), chap. 7.Ibid., chap. 27.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Miscellanies, in The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. by Edward Waldo Emerson, I (Concord Edition; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904), p. 53.Ibid., p. 62.Ibid., p. 53.Ibid., p. 62.Ibid., p. 572.Henry D. Thoreau, The Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, ed. by Bradford Torrey and Francis H. Allen, XI (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949), p. 84.Thomas Carlyle in Past and Present in The Works of Thomas Carlyle, vol. 10, book III, chap. 1 (Centenary Edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1896–1901) comments on the importance of the image-maker: “The Hatter in the strand of London, instead of making better felt hats than another, mounts a huge lath-and-plaster Hat, seven-feet high, upon wheel's; sends a man to drive it through the streets; … ”.William Ellery Channing, Thoreau the Poet Naturalist, ed. by F. B. Sanborn (rev. ed.; Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1902), p. 336.Henry D. Thoreau, The First and Last Journals of Thoreau, ed. by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, I (Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1905), p. 32.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. by Horace E. Scudder (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1893), p. 164.Montgomery Bird in his first Preface to Nick of the Woods justifies his portrayal of Indians on the grounds that “he wages war … upon women and children, whom all other races in the world, no matter how barbarous, consent to spare … .” When some people objected, he reaffirmed his stand in the preface to his revised edition of 1881. He drew Indians as “they existed,” he said, “ignorant; violent, debased, brutal.”.Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, in The Writings of Mark Twain, II (Stormfield Edition; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929), p. 199.Mark Twain, Roughing It, in The Writings of Mark Twain, III (Stormfield Edition; New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929), p. 132.Leslie Fiedler, The Return of the Vanishing American (New York: Stein and Day, 1968), p. 76.Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins (New York: Avon Books, 1969), p. 36.Charles E. Silberman, Crisis in the Classroom (New York: Random House), p. 9.Ibid., pp. 111–112.“Ralph Nader Comments on Indian Education,” Integrated Education, VII (November-December, 1969), p. 4.“Suicide Among the Blackfeet Indians,” Bulletin of Suicidology (Fall, 1970), pp. 42–43.U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service. Indian Health Trends and Services (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1969), p. 18.