Article: American Indian Children at School: 1850-1930.

Michael C. Coleman has analyzed 108 autobiographical accounts by 102 native Americans focusing on their childhood and teenage schooling experiences. His conclusions are twofold: that native Americans "responded to an alien education institution with a high degree of ambivalence"; and that these autobiographical accounts, which are highly consistent with each other, "provide a credible understanding" of Indian schooling experiences (192).

Coleman offers a descriptive portrait of Indian schooling and challenges recent studies by H. David Brumble, Arnold Krupat, and others who emphasize the distortions and forgetfulness inherent in native American autobiographies. He ...

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