American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling
ISBN: 9780803206250
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Nebraska Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Education; Irish; Irish; Indians of North America; Indians of North America;

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.

Michael C. Coleman is a senior lecturer in the English section of the Department of Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is the author of American Indian Children at School, 1850--1920 and Presbyterian Missionary Attitudes toward American Indians, 1837--1893.

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