After a couple of light-hearted episodes, we dive back into the more horrific side of humanity as we take a look at the Army officer behind Native American boarding schools.

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Sources

• Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. Lawrence, KS: U. of Kansas Press, 1995.
• Child, Brenda. Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families. Lincoln, NE: U. of Nebraska Press, 2000.
• Churchill, Ward. Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools. San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 2004.
• Hoxie, Frederick. A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920. Lincoln, NE: U. of Nebraska Press, 1984.
• Sa, Zitkala. The School Days of an Indian Girl in the American 1890s. Winston-Salem, NC: Duke U. Press, 2000.
• Witmer, Linda F. The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1879-1918. Carlisle, PA: Cumberland County Historical Society, 1993.

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