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Author Chalcraft, Edwin L., 1855-1943

Title Assimilation's agent : my life as a superintendent in the Indian boarding school system / Edwin L. Chalcraft ; edited and with an introduction by Cary C. Collins
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (lxvi, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Preface -- Foreword -- Journey to the West -- Chehalis Indian Reservation -- Puyallup Agency and School -- Salem Indian Training School -- Private citizens -- Shoshone Indian Agency, Wyoming -- Supervisor of Indian schools -- Salem Indian Training School, second appointment -- Jones Male Academy -- Siletz Indian Agency -- At home in Seattle
Summary Assimilation's Agent reveals the life and opinions of Edwin L. Chalcraft (1855-1943), a superintendent in the federal Indian boarding schools during the critical period of forced assimilation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chalcraft was hired by the Office of Indian Affairs (now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs) in 1883. During his nearly four decades of service, he worked at a number of Indian boarding schools and agencies, including the Chehalis Indian School in Oakville, Washington; Puyallup Indian School in Tacoma, Washington; Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon; Wind River Indian School in Wind River, Wyoming; Jones Male Academy in Hartshorne, Oklahoma; and Siletz Indian Agency in Oregon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-339) and index
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Subject Chalcraft, Edwin L., 1855-1943
SUBJECT Chalcraft, Edwin L., 1855-1943 fast
Subject Off-reservation boarding schools -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century
School superintendents -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography
School superintendents -- Wyoming -- Biography
Indians of North America -- Education -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century
Indians of North America -- Education -- Wyoming -- History -- 19th century
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Northwest, Pacific
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- Wyoming
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation
Indians of North America -- Education
Off-reservation boarding schools
School superintendents
Pacific Northwest
Wyoming
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Biography.
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Collins, Cary C., 1961-
ISBN 0803204353
9780803204355
1280374322
9781280374326
0803215169
9780803215160