A History of the Phoenix Indian School (2789 words, 12 pages)
Owen Lindauer"It's cheaper to educate Indians than to kill them."--Indian Commissioner Thomas Morgan speaking at theestablishment of the Phoenix Indian School in 1891Once Native Americans were confined to reservations in the 1880s, thefederal government embarked on a plan to bringabout their disappearance--not by military means, but by assimilating their childrenthrough ...
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