| Education at the Edge of Empire Subjects: Pueblo Indians; Off-reservation boarding schools; Discrimination in education; Community and school; Indians of North America; Pueblo Indians; Pueblo Indians; Indians of North America; For the vast majority of Native American students in federal Indian boarding schools at the turn of the twentieth century, the experience was nothing short of tragic. Dislocated from family and community, they were forced into an educational system that sought to erase their Indian identity as a means of acculturating them to white society. However, as historian John Gram reveals, some Indian communities on the edge of the American frontier had a much different experience--even influencing the type of education their children received. John R. Gram teaches at Southern Methodist University. |